Incident date: 2017-05-20
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was bleeding an ammonia line when ammonia came out of the valve and sprayed the employee's face. The employee inhaled ammonia refrigerant and had to be hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate