Incident date: 2018-01-25
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was cleaning when he bumped into a vertical pipe containing hydrofluoric acid. The acid dripped down under his gloves, burning the top of his left wrist. The pipe had been flushed at the time of the incident, but a section had a few ounces of trapped acid. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate