Incident date: 2021-09-24
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was using a water hose to spray and clean pulp out of a large drum in a bleach plant area. The employee was exposed to chlorine dioxide from the pulp, became ill, and began to cough. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate