Incident date: 2023-04-17
NAICS industry code: 311514

An employee was investigating a leak in a clean-in-place system. The system sent cleaning solution to a valve that was not connected and the employee was sprayed with the hot water and caustic soda mixture. The employee sustained first and second-degree burns to the abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate