Accident Report Detail
Accident: 116112.015 - Employee Inhales Chlorine Gas And Is Hospitalized
Accident: 116112.015 -- Report ID: 0112000 -- Event Date: 05/03/2019 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1399706.015 | 05/09/2019 | Ddm Hotel Mystic, Llc | |||||
At 2:30 p.m. on May 3, 2019, an employee went to the pool pump room to investigate a report that the chemicals in the pool were out of balance. The employee observed two 5-gallon buckets of Ecolab Laundri Destainer in the pump room. The buckets contained a 10-30% solution of sodium hypochlorite (bleach). When he opened the bucket, chlorine gas was released and he inhaled the gas. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||||
Keywords:
pool, chemical vapor, chlorine
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 1399706.015 | 21 | M | Hospitalized injury | Poisoning(Systemic) | Engineers, n.e.c. | |
2 | 1399706.015 | 21 | M | Hospitalized injury | Poisoning(Systemic) | Engineers, n.e.c. |