Incident date: 2015-03-18
NAICS industry code: 311513

An employee was injured when a hoist that he was using malfunctioned, causing the basket on the hoist to fall into a tank of hot water caustic solution. This caused waves of the solution to develop and spill over onto the employee, resulting in severe burns to the employee's legs and feet.

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: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate