Incident date: 2022-05-28
NAICS industry code: 562991

An employee was cleaning sludge from a tank when they received chemical burns on 30 percent of their body from exposure to ethylene dichloride (EDC), as well as suffering kidney failure and vomiting.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Chlorine compounds, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate