Incident date: 2016-02-02
NAICS industry code: 335121

An employee was vacuum filtering a 49-percent hydrofluoric acid solution in a lab hood when the hydrofluoric acid was pulled through a vacuum pump during filtration. The employee inhaled the fumes, and her right ear and head were contacted by the solution.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Hydrogen fluoride, hydrofluoric acid
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate