Incident date: 2020-02-24
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was servicing an air conditioner unit at a customer's house. Upon completion, the employee attempted to disconnect a Freon gauge from the air conditioner unit. One of the valves got stuck and Freon gas started to flow out. The employee reapplied the gauge as the Freon was coming out and sustained freon burns to both hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with cold objects or substances
code_source: title: Fluorotrichloromethane
code_nature: title: Other burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate