Incident date: 2021-04-10
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee was working inside a building on a fixed platform, feeding pipe upward through a hole to a roof. Ammonia leaked from a pipe about 15 feet away. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from a respiratory illness.

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