Incident date: 2024-02-14
NAICS industry code: 339993

An employee was pouring nitric acid into a plating bath tub. A mechanical trolley that traveled over the tank approached and startled him. This caused him to spill the acid onto his right arm. His arm was burned from the wrist to the elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact tissue
code_source: title: Nitric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns, corrosions  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate