Incident date: 2021-11-01
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was cleaning a drain when a thermal reaction between sodium hydroxide and hot water occurred. The employee sustained thermal and chemical burns to the head and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Water
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate