Incident date: 2017-11-21
NAICS industry code: 327910

An employee was using nitric acid to strip nickel-coated diamond reclaim from a process tank when a violent exothermic reaction occurred and caused an overflow of nitrogen oxides. The employee later experienced breathing problems and was hospitalized.

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