Incident date: 2020-11-10
NAICS industry code: 562211

An employee was helping clean out a pool of sodium hydroxide. While the employee was in the pool, the chemical entered the employee's boots (having broken the seal at the top of each boot) and burned the tops of the employee's feet. The employee 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: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate