Incident date: 2020-12-05
NAICS industry code: 491110

While working in the maintenance shop, an employee's jacket caught the spout of a bottle of chemical floor stripper, spilling the chemical on his pants. Later that evening the employee was hospitalized with chemical burns to the leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Cleaning and polishing agents, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate