Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect

Name: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect at Lakeside Foods, Inc.
Start: 6/21/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017065681 · 6/21/2017 · Lakeside Foods, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: BODY SYSTEMS
Nature of injury: Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect

Cause

Event: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
Source: Ammonia, anhydrous ammonia

Employer

Name: Lakeside Foods, Inc.
Location: 601 Veterans Drive, REEDSBURG, WISCONSIN, 53959
NAICS: 311421
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was in a freezer cleaning up frozen peas that had ammonia trapped in them due to an earlier valve leak. As he shoveled the peas, the liquid in the peas expanded to vapor and he inhaled ammonia, suffering labored breathing and loss of consciousness. He was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown