Incident date: 2015-08-01
NAICS industry code: 311615

A maintenance employee was getting a glass to rinse out his mouth after having some coffee. He immediately noticed the water tasted funny and spit out the water. A chemical sanitizer, pH+, used in the facility had back-flowed into the potable water lines and contaminated the drinking water. The employee's lips, inside of the mouth, and tongue were burned.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Disinfectants
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple mouth locations
severity: moderate