Incident date: 2019-05-04
NAICS industry code: 721110

An employee lifted the cover off a five-gallon pail of liquid chlorine and was overcome by the chlorine gas that was released and was hospitalized for chemical pneumonitis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Pneumonitis, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate