Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-02-19 | Channahon | Illinois | T.A.C., INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
An employee was on top of a trailer inside a wash bay area, loosening bolts to the trailer's open dome lid. The employee was found on top of the tanker unconscious and was hospitalized for respiratory failure and cardiac arrest due to toluene exposure. | |||||
2019-01-16 | Waterford | New York | BWD Steel Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was operating a crane and experienced respiratory distress caused by exposure to toluene vapors. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-03-08 | Friendly | West Virgini | MPM Silicones LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to other harmful substances |
On March 8, 2015, at approximately 8:08 p.m., an employee disconnected a hose from a cylinder of allyl alcohol. He carried the hose to an area and began cleaning the hose with toluene when he experienced shortness of breath. An air evacuation was requested and the employee was air lifted to the hospital and hospitalized for chest pains. |