# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032494` · 3/16/2020 · OAKLAND, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
- **Location:** 10646 Hwy. 51, OAKLAND, MISSISSIPPI, 38948
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pouring caustic into a kettle with hot water to sanitize the kettle. A chemical reaction occurred, causing caustic to splash back onto him. The employee sustained chemical burns to parts of the face, the eye, and also to the wrists, neck, thigh, and buttocks.

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