Incident date: 2019-05-08
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was using a forklift to unload a pallet of 55-gallon drums from a tractor trailer. A 55-gallon drum containing hydrofluoric acid was leaking and the acid was released into the air. The employee was hospitalized for exposure to the acid including lung and throat injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
code_source: title: Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate