Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2017-09-21 | Lynn Haven | Florida | National Mentor Healthcare, LLC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was providing resident care at a group home when she got close to an open bottle of foaming disinfectant and suffered an asthma attack. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-08-15 | Lorain | Ohio | Cleveland Clinic | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
On August 15, 2017, an employee was exposed to an aerosol disinfectant in the office and experienced breathing difficulty and vomiting, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-10 | Phillips | Wisconsin | Aspirus, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
On June 10, 2017, an employee opened a tub of liquid chlorine bleach with pliers and rinsed the pliers in a stream of what appeared to be running water, but was actually disinfectant. The employee then experienced shortness of breath and lowered oxygen saturation, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-10-03 | San Antonio | Texas | Walmart | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
While loading items into the cab of a delivery truck, an employee came in contact with liquid disinfectant cleaner, suffering chemical burns to both hands and the nose, as well as whitening of the fingertips. | |||||
2015-02-15 | Pensacola | Florida | Paul Corporation | Lumbar region | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
Employee was cleaning the wash tank when the hose disconnected from the pump and sprayed Minncare (a disinfectant) on his lower back. This caused a chemical burn to his lower back. |