OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #914242
MICHIGAN PAPERBOARD CO
BATTLE CREEK, MI·
Event description
Employee inhales chlorine gas
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 attempted to remove a metering system from a chlorine gas cylinder b efore the cylinder was empty or the valve had been shut off. Employee #1 inhaled chlorine, but did not require hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 60 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- GASES (19)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- GAS/VAPOR/MIST/FUME/SMOKE/DUST (7)
- Hazardous substance
- 0640
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.