Incident date: 2022-01-15
NAICS industry code: 811310

Two employees were replacing a pump. They had removed the old pump, and were starting to install the new one, when a process rupture disk three stories up blew and discharged 400-degree methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) product into their work area. They were both burned.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Aromatics, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low