Incident date: 2018-08-17
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was saw-cutting a floor indoors for about one hour using a walk-behind concrete saw with an oxidation catalyst when he became dizzy, exited the building, and collapsed. He was hospitalized due to carbon monoxide exposure.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Carbon monoxide
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate