Incident date: 2019-11-03
NAICS industry code: 484220

An employee had just hooked up to a bulk chemical trailer and was performing a pre-trip inspection. Caustic soda ash blew from a rail car inside the plant and the employee sustained chemical burns to the eyes, face, throat, and lungs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Head, neck, and trunk
severity: moderate