Incident date: 2021-01-05
NAICS industry code: 541380

An employee was opening a valve to prepare it to be drained of sulfuric acid when a pump failed and sulfuric acid sprayed onto the employee causing chemical burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Sulfuric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate