Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects

Name: Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Start: 6/28/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016065801 · 6/28/2016 · St. Elizabeth's Hospital

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: BODY SYSTEMS
Nature of injury: Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects

Cause

Event: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
Source: Cleaning and polishing agents, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Location: 211 South Third St., BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62220
NAICS: 622110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a pump to a commercial washing machine. After using water to prime the pump, the employee ran the cleaning fluid to the pump. Residual water with cleaning product was caught in a hand-held container. The employee inhaled the cleaning product odor and experienced respiratory tract irritation and distress.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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