| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-03 | Pasadena | Tx | Trimac Transportation | Arm(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was being trained on transferring acid from one tanker truck to another. He was connecting hoses and fittings between the trucks when nitric acid from the open end of one of the lines splashed onto his right arm. The employee was hospitalized for third degree chemical burns to 2.5% of the employee's right arm. | |||||
| 2019-06-12 | Cherokee | Alabama | Cherokee Nitrogen L.L.C. | Multiple face locations | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was helping to drain a knockout pot containing 65% nitric acid. The drain hose became loose and the employee was sprayed in the face. The employee received burns to the face and eyes, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-04-24 | Chicago | Illinois | Hi-Tek Environmental, Inc. dba STAT Analysis Corporation | Head and trunk | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was working in a laboratory and was pouring 1:1 HN03 (nitric acid) out of a 1000ml flask into a 4-liter reagent bottle inside a fume hood when the neck of the 1000ml flask broke and HN03 splashed onto the employee's chest and face. The employee was hospitalized for chemical burns to the chest and face. | |||||
| 2019-04-24 | Amarillo | Texas | Plains Dairy, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee delivered nitric acid to a chlorine tank that was mislabeled, causing a reaction with a cloud that affected seven employees and required evacuation. An employee was hospitalized for respiratory irritation due to chemical exposure. | |||||
| 2018-06-17 | Lubbock | Texas | Hydrite Chemical Company | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was at the end of a trans-load (transferring from railcar to tanker truck) of nitric acid when a line broke, exposing him to nitric acid burns on his legs. | |||||
| 2018-03-26 | Owego | New York | Sanmina Corp | Buttock(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was filling a tank with nitric acid. The nitric acid sprayed out of the ball valve onto the employee's back and leg. The employee received second degree burns to the buttock area, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-03-22 | Cuero | Texas | Refinery Specialist Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Explosion, n.e.c. |
| The injured employee was preparing samples for testing and was processing nitric acid and oil and gas samples in a glass container when the glass container exploded resulting in burns and puncture wounds to the employee's hands and arms. | |||||
| 2017-08-21 | Pryor | Oklahoma | Pryor Chemical Company | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was using an air pressure hose to drain a nitric acid line into a tote when the hose blew out of the tote and nitric acid burned the employee's legs and groin. | |||||
| 2016-09-07 | Cambridge | Massachusett | Massachusetts Materials Technologies, LLC. | Multiple body parts | Explosion |
| An employee suffered burns to the chest and forearms after a small explosion of 10% nitric acid occurred. | |||||
| 2016-08-30 | Omaha | Nebraska | Elemental Scientific, Inc | Face | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was removing a chemical mixture from a cooler. A chemical reaction occurred and the employee was sprayed in the face with nitric acid. | |||||
| 2016-06-21 | Joliet | Illinois | Apex Material Technologies | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was performing a lockout/tag-out procedure on a tank line and attached an air hose to clean the line. The pressure caused the flank to break, spraying and burning the employee with nitric acid. | |||||
| 2016-03-14 | Laconia | New Hampshir | Smiths Tubular Systems Laconia Inc. (Titeflex Aerospace) | Nonclassifiable | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| Two employees were cleaning a 30-foot tube with a chemical mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids inside. The tubing became over-pressurized and the end cap dislodged, spraying the mixture onto the employees. They were both hospitalized with chemical burns. | |||||
| 2015-09-01 | San Antonio | Texas | Blue Line Corparation | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was removing 1" piping from a reactor vessel for cleaning purposes. While removing the piping with a wrench tool, nitric acid leaked from the system and caused chemical burns to the employee's face and both arms. | |||||
| 2015-07-23 | Overland | Missouri | Jost Chemical Company | Face | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| At approximately 12:45 p.m., on 23 July 2015, an employee was gathering nitric acid at 67% into an 8oz bottle. The employee filled the bottle and it splashed acid in the employee's face, causing chemical burns. | |||||
| 2015-04-09 | Hazelwood | Missouri | GKN AEROSPACE | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On or about 11am, on 4/9/2015, a pipe fitter was working off an 8 ft. A-frame ladder about 5 feet off the ground, trying to loosen a valve on the nitric acid line. The valve broke loose spraying liquid onto the employee. As the employee attempted to block the spray, he lost his balance and fell off the ladder, cracking an L3 vertebrae. He was hospitalized. | |||||