OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14254411
ANSON COUNTY WATERWATER TREDMENT PLANT
WADESBORO, NC·
Event description
Employee's lungs inflamed from chlorine overexposure
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was making a check of a chlorine containment building when he noted an abnormally strong odor of chlorine and became progressively more ill. He was hospitalized and had sustained, according to a pulmonary medical doctor, chlorin e burns and lung inflammation due to chlorine exposure, and complications due to legionella pneumonia. The chlorine alarm system was erratic/out of order.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 694
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 0640
- Task assigned
- 1
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