# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at Hi-Tek Environmental, Inc. dba STAT Analysis Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019044167` · 4/24/2019 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Nitric acid
- **Secondary source:** Bottles, jugs, flasks
## Employer
- **Name:** Hi-Tek Environmental, Inc. dba STAT Analysis Corporation
- **Location:** 2242 W. Harrison Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60612
- **NAICS:** 541712
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

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.

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