# Third or fourth degree chemical burns and corrosions at CELANESE, LTD
> OSHA SIR `20161211922` · 12/25/2016 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree chemical burns and corrosions
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Sulfuric acid
## Employer
- **Name:** CELANESE, LTD
- **Location:** 9502 Bayport Blvd, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77507
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making rounds when the employee walked into a sulfuric acid spray that was coming from a pin hole leak from a V-1038's sludge trap. The employee sustained second and third degree burns to the neck and face.

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