Incident date: 2025-08-22
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was unloading and depressurizing a railcar filled with sulfuric acid. The employee turned the valve to disconnect the hose when sulfuric acid released and sprayed upward via the standpipe. The employee was hospitalized burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact tissue
code_source: title: Sulfuric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns, corrosions  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate