Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Whitey's Ice Cream, 2525 41st Street, MOLINE, ILLINOIS 61265
on — Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
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Final narrative
On May 29, 2023, an employee was working on an ammonia compressor thermal siphon. When relieving the pressure, it released an ammonia cloud. The employee was hospitalized for breathing and swallowing difficulties as well as eye blurriness.
HospitalizedBODY SYSTEMSAmmonia and ammonium compounds, unspecified
An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.
An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.
An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.
An employee was kneeling on the ground while painting in a hotel area. He felt a prick, then overnight had a lot of pain, irritation, and some swelling. The employee was hospitalized with an infection in his knee.
A contractor was performing maintenance on a fryer when it tipped over, causing hot oil to splash onto the injured employee, who was nearby. The injured employee suffered burns that required hospitalization.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.