Incident date: 2023-11-21
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was cleaning the screens of a water system and used compressed air to blow out and clean the metal screens. This aerosolized water droplets and the employee was exposed to Legionella pneumophila bacteria, resulting in pneumonia that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Bacteria
code_nature: title: Pneumonia, influenza, unspecified
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate