105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

TOWN AND COUNTRY, MISSOURI—

MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect

Final narrative

An employee was working in rooms along a hospital hallway, performing respiratory treatments for her assigned patients. She noticed a bleach smell in the hallway as she entered a room. While in the room she continued smelling bleach, so she put on a surgical mask and closed the door behind her. Later, after working in other rooms and removing her mask, she entered a room with a recliner that had been wiped down with bleach shortly before she entered. She was hospitalized, suffering respiratory distress.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified

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