Incident date: 2023-12-14
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chemicals, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate