OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #739623
PENNWALT CORPORATION
CALVERT CITY, KY·
Event description
Employee dies of cardiac arrest after acid splash
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was placing the #6 water condenser back on line, leaving the drain v alve open while he opened a valve under the condenser. Hydrofluoric acid suddent l drained into the catch basin/drain system, and splashed the employee. He suffe red first- and second-degree burns and later died of cardiac arrest.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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