OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968255
KERR-MCGEE CHEMICAL, LLC
HENDERSON, NV·
Event description
Employee injured when sprayed by hydrochloric acid
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 attempted to wash out a hydrochloric acid line, assuming there was n o pressure on the line. When he bore down on the line with a pipe wrench the lin e broke, causing hydrochloric acid to spray him in the mouth and face. He sustai ned chemical burns and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 4
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 9
- Occupation code
- 764
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Hazardous substance
- 1430
- Task assigned
- 1
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