Incident date: 2022-11-16
NAICS industry code: 311211

An employee was performing maintenance on an air actuated valve. As the employee was fixing the connection between the airline and the valve, 35% HCL began to leak. The employee was hospitalized from chemical inhalation/ingestion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Hydrogen chloride, hydrochloric acid
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate