# Third or fourth degree chemical burns and corrosions at Huellinghoff Brothers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010064` · 1/3/2018 · UNION, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree chemical burns and corrosions
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Ammonia, anhydrous ammonia
## Employer
- **Name:** Huellinghoff Brothers, Inc.
- **Location:** 50 Mel Gores Drive, UNION, MISSOURI, 63084
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting to ventilate a tractor trailer tanker. Anhydrous ammonia vapors were to be ventilated before filling the tanker with propane. When the employee started to hook up the fan, leftover liquid anhydrous ammonia in the lines splashed him and caused first and third degree chemical burns.

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