Incident date: 2024-02-29
NAICS industry code: 424690

On February 29, 2024, at approximately 11:30 a.m., an employee was removing residual ammonia from the delivery hose at the end of the transfer hose when they were exposed to anhydrous ammonia and suffered an inhalation injury. The employee hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance  single episode or single shift
code_source: title: Ammonia, ammonium compounds
code_nature: title: Poison, toxic, or allergenic effects  other respiratory
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate