Incident date: 2017-03-27
NAICS industry code: 532412

An employee accidentally drank sodium hydroxide, believing it was a bottle of water. He immediately spit out the fluid and suffered minor chemical burns to the mouth, requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ingestion of harmful substance
code_source: title: Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Mouth, unspecified
severity: moderate