Inhalation of harmful substance single episode or single shift · Poison, toxic, or allergenic effects dizziness, headache
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ARL Bio Pharma, 865 Research Parkway, Ste. 417, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73104
on — Poison, toxic, or allergenic effects dizziness, headache, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .
Final narrative
An employee opened a flammables storage cabinet to get something out, smelled a chemical odor, and began to feel unwell and dizzy. She was hospitalized, having been exposed to formic acid from a leaking bottle at the bottom of the cabinet.
Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Carboxylic acids, acetic acid
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