Incident date: 2015-07-31
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was offloading aqua ammonia from a truck at a customer's site. The employee closed the valve on the customer's side. He disconnected the hose on the truck side, but did not close the valve. The employee was exposed to aqua ammonia fumes and hospitalized.  He was wearing a respirator at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate