OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689513
BURN,SODIUM HYDROXIDE,PPE,WORK RULES,LIME,CHEMICAL BURN
Event description
Employees chemically burned by lime
Investigation abstract
Employees #1, #2, and #3, temporary laborers, were removing wet hides from a lar ge mixer. The hides were being tanned with a liquid compound containing lime, so dium hydrosulfide, and sodium hydroxide. Over a two hour period, some of the liq uid worked its way through the employees' clothing and rubber gloves. Their arms were abraded and the lime in the solution burned the lower layers of their skin . Employees #1, #2, and #3 were taken to the hospital, where Employee #3 was tre ated and released. Employees #1 and #2 were kept overnight.
Victims (3)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 9
- Hazardous substance
- 1593
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 9
- Hazardous substance
- 1593
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 9
- Hazardous substance
- 1593
- Task assigned
- 1
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