Incident date: 2017-08-21
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was using an air pressure hose to drain a nitric acid line into a tote when the hose blew out of the tote and nitric acid burned the employee's legs and groin.

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