Incident date: 2017-09-29
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was using an oxygen/acetylene torch in a small walk-in cooler when the employee developed breathing problems and lung aspiration from the fumes or smoke. The employee was hospitalized.

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