Incident date: 2016-09-02
NAICS industry code: 325193

An employee hooking up the fermenter was sprayed with hot sodium hydroxide when the hose was disconnected. The employee suffered second degree burns to the top of the feet and first degree burns to the right shin, arm and thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate