| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-10 | West Roxbury | Ma | Valvoline Oil Change | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee drank from an electrolyte solution bottle in the refrigerator that had been filled with degreaser. The employee became sick and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-23 | Arlington Heights | Illinois | Rolling Green Country Club | Leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was walking from a kitchen to a bathroom after cleaning a fryer with degreaser. He became lightheaded and fell to the floor, breaking his right leg. | |||||
| 2019-09-09 | Brent | Alabama | Burkes Mechanical, Inc. | Hand(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| A maintenance employee had just tightened a bolt. A second employee then put a wrench on it to check it. As the second employee was applying pressure to the wrench, a valve which controls the flow from the degreaser to the washer opened slightly. The injured employee was sprayed by 200-degree stock. He sustained third degree burns to both hands and second degree burns to his back. | |||||
| 2019-04-26 | Wichita | Kansas | Johnson Controls Inc | Nonclassifiable | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| A maintenance millwright had used an aerosol degreaser to clean the shaft and key on a power press prior to MIG welding. Vapors and/or overspray were in the cavity surrounding the area and did not dissipate prior to striking an arc. A fire resulted that caused burns to the employee's body. | |||||
| 2018-04-24 | Ogdensburg | New York | UNITED HELPERS NURSING HOME, INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee suffered an asthma-related reaction when other employees were performing maintenance on an ice machine down the hall using a degreaser product. | |||||
| 2016-07-20 | Cleveland | Ohio | Ferro Corporation | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was setting up to repair a heat transfer leak on a mill and was exposed to organic vapors through a chemical reaction. The employee was using brake clean and a water miscible degreaser detergent when a chemical reaction occurred. | |||||
| 2016-05-07 | Oshkosh | Wisconsin | Supple GC Oshkosh, LLC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Ingestion of harmful substance |
| An employee ingested degreaser that was placed in a cup and handed to him for cleaning the grill. The employee's esophagus was burned and the employee underwent surgery. | |||||
| 2016-04-05 | Killeen | Texas | Walmart Stores Texas, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was cleaning the oven. She sprayed degreaser and then put the oven in the self-cleaning cycle. When she opened the oven, she was exposed to the fumes inside and experienced lung irritation, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-03-03 | New Rochelle | New York | ShopRite of New Rochelle | Leg(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was preparing to help clean deli equipment using a chemical degreaser. The container of concentrated degreasing chemical fell, causing the chemical to spill out and contact the employee's leg. The employee suffered severe skin irritation. | |||||
| 2015-11-19 | Brooksville | Florida | Cintas Corporation | Face | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was splashed in the face with a cleaning chemical (extreme degreaser) while cleaning a kitchen at a client site. The employee was hospitalized for chemical burns. | |||||
| 2015-10-30 | Atlanta | Georgia | Levy Restaurants/Philips Arena | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| On October 30, 2015, an employee slipped and fell while using a degreaser to clean the floors at Philips Arena. The employee was later admitted for chemical burns. | |||||
| 2015-09-21 | Toledo | Ohio | Chrysler Group LLC | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| On or about September 21, 2015, an employee was hospitalized after suffering a second degree chemical burn from a concentrated degreaser that had spilled onto the employee's left foot and ankle. | |||||
| 2015-08-19 | Oakwood Village | Ohio | Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee at the warehouse placed a 35-pound box of degreaser on the forks of a motorized stand-on powered industrial vehicle and hit the wrong button, causing the PIV to move backwards and pin the employee against the rack system. The employee suffered a crushing fracture to the left leg. | |||||