Cleveland Cliffs Monessen Coke Plant

While waiting to assist with delivering a transformer from a flatbed truck, an employee went to get a drink of water. He returned to the work area and set his water bottle down. He later went to take a drink and picked up a different bottle that contained denatured alcohol. The employee was hospitalized due to poisoning.

An employee was preparing a job area for an air conditioning replacement when they ingested drain solvent.

An employee was siphoning water from a tank and ingested chemicals that were in the siphon hose. He was hospitalized.

An employee was siphoning degreaser from a 55-gallon drum. Some of the caustic solution entered his mouth and throat, causing burns. He was hospitalized.

An employee was performing maintenance on a residential HVAC system. The employee was provided an unlabeled bottle of drain cleaner (sodium hydroxide) which he mistook for a beverage and drank some of it resulting in chemical burns to the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines. The employee was hospitalized.