Incident date: 2018-08-24
NAICS industry code: 561320

While an employee was sanitizing hard candy tumblers, a bucket of sodium hydroxide cleaner spilled and the chemical splashed onto the legs of his coveralls and jeans. It soaked through, burning his knees. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate