OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300255
WILCOXON CONST INC
ROCKVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee's foot inflamed by calcium chloride
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were replastering a swimming pool. Employee #1 was mix ing plaster when he spilled calcium chloride on his tennis shoes. His tennis sho es became wet from a subsequent rainfall and after they dried out Employee #1's foot became painful. He removed his shoes and realized that all his toes and par t of his left foot were red and inflamed. Employee #1 flushed his feet with wate r and went to his doctor later that day.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 584
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 9
- Task assigned
- 1
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