Incident date: 2022-09-05
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was walking up the stairs at a bromine loading/unloading area. A thermal expansion rupture disc failed in a chlorine dock area, about 70 yards away. The employee inhaled chlorine gas, suffered lung irritation and low blood oxygen, and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Chlorine, chlorine bleach
code_nature: title: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate