Incident date: 2023-10-06
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was disconnecting the return line from a container after cleaning when they were sprayed with heated sodium hydroxide solution. The employee sustained thermal and chemical burns to their legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate