Incident date: 2022-07-28
NAICS industry code: 611310

An employee was transporting liquid nitrogen to a lab in a cryogenic storage dewar. Some of the liquid nitrogen spilled on his hand and burned it. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with cold objects or substances
code_source: title: Nitrogen
code_nature: title: Other burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate