OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14473631
TELLABS, INCORPORATED
LISLE, IL·
Event description
EMPLOYEES POISONED BY INHALING VAPORS FROM FLOOR STRIPPING
Investigation abstract
Eight employees were in a building where floor stripping compound containing min eral spirits was being used on the second shift. The ventilation system carried vapors into another department where employees became ill and were taken to the local hospital by EMT personnel, where they were treated and released.
Victims (8)
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 50 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 45 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 32 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#4 Non-hospitalized injury Age 48 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#5 Non-hospitalized injury Age 47 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#6 Non-hospitalized injury Age 53 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#7 Non-hospitalized injury Age 33 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
-
#8 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 Female
- Nature of injury
- Poisoning(Systemic) (17)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 2037
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.