Incident date: 2019-08-23
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was opening a valve when the hot caustic (main component: sodium hydroxide) from an adjacent valve that was open sprayed him. The piping was shut down for maintenance and the injured employee was restoring it to service prior to the incident. The employee sustained a second degree burn on 2% of the right leg surface. 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: Second degree chemical burns and corrosions
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate