Incident date: 2015-06-20
NAICS industry code: 332813

An employee was changing a chemical in a cleaning tank on a plating line when the tank exploded. The chemical, Sirprep 309EC, is an electrical cleaner; it contacted the employee, and he suffered serious chemical burns on 20 percent of his body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
code_source: title: Cleaning and polishing agents, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate