Incident date: 2023-09-20
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was disconnecting a uranium hexafluoride line from a tank that had been filled. Prior to securing the manifold cap, a co-worker was manipulating a valve on another cylinder fill spot, resulting in back-pressure and uranium hexafluoride wisping through the unsecured manifold cap. The employee inhaled the chemical and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid
code_nature: title: Coughing and throat irritation- toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate