Incident date: 2025-07-12
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was de-bundling cubed feedstock consisting of plastic barrels. The employee was putting feedstock into the shredders manually. She lifted a drum to put it in the shredding machine and sulfuric acid spilled down the front of her left leg. The employee sustained chemical burns to her lower leg requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact tissue
code_source: title: Sulfuric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns, corrosions  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate