Incident date: 2024-04-10
NAICS industry code: 331110

An employee was preparing to rig an aerial lift to an overhead crane in a bay that had 4 to 8 inches of standing water. The employee went to a waste pile to get wooden pallets to stand on. The employee slipped and fell into lime that was in the waste pile. The employee then fell into the the standing water, creating a chemical reaction with the lime. The employee was hospitalized with second-degree chemical burns on both legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact tissue
code_source: title: Lime, calcium oxide
code_nature: title: Chemical burns, corrosions  second degree
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate