Incident date: 2015-05-16
NAICS industry code: 322130

Around 1:30 AM on Saturday, May 16, 2015, an employee who had been washing accumulated spilled lime near an area utility drain stepped into dry lime, which came up over and into his ~10-inch tall steel-toed work boots. He received third degree chemical burns to his feet and lower legs and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Lime
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree chemical burns and corrosions
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate