Incident date: 2025-05-12
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was cleaning the exterior of a deposition tank (containing red phosphorus) with steel wool from within a fume hood. There was a flash fire inside the fume hood, and the employee suffered burns to the forearms, forehead, cheeks, chin, and right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Flash fire
code_source: title: Phosphorus  elemental
code_nature: title: Thermal burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate