Incident date: 2017-04-19
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was transporting a pump used with hydrofluoric acid in a box. He was attempting to stop the pump from tipping over when he contacted the pump's acid residue, suffering chemical burns to his hand that required hospitalization.

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: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate