Incident date: 2017-03-16
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee was performing PH analysis on water using sodium hydroxide. The employee ingested some of it and was hospitalized for a burned esophagus and stomach.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ingestion of harmful substance
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate