Incident date: 2022-02-03
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was preparing for duty at an ambulance station when she inhaled an unknown residual powder from foam insulation in the back of the ambulance after opening a medication storage box. The employee was hospitalized after experiencing respiratory distress due to pulmonary edema caused by an anaphylactic reaction.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Anaphylactic shock, anaphylaxis
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate