Incident date: 2021-03-25
NAICS industry code: 238220

The injured employee and a co-worker were taking off the service cap of a king valve when refrigerant discharged into the injured employee's glove at high pressure causing burns to the left hand that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Fluorotrichloromethane
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate