Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, 201 Formosa Drive, POINT COMFORT, TEXAS 77978
on , Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the body systems.
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Final narrative
At about 3:00 p.m. on December 3, 2020, an employee was switching out a one-ton chlorine cylinder in an ethylene glycol unit when a chlorine leak developed. The employee inhaled chlorine gas and was hospitalized.
HospitalizedBODY SYSTEMSChlorine, chlorine bleach
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