Incident date: 2020-04-11
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was working in a wet air oxidation unit. As she was clearing a hose into a tank, she was sprayed with spent caustic released from the tank's top hatch. She suffered chemical burns and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate