Incident date: 2022-02-14
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee was carrying a bucket of nitric acid when it hit a railing. Nitric acid splashed onto the employee's face and into the employee's mouth, causing a chemical burn.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
code_source: title: Nitric acid
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate