Incident date: 2021-08-30
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was on his second SCUBA dive of the day, stacking tires for removal from the seabed of a failed artificial reef. He developed vertigo and nausea, which worsened when he surfaced. He was hospitalized, suffering from decompression sickness.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to change in water pressure
code_source: title: Water pressure-high or low
code_nature: title: Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate