Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at TRECE, INC.
Start: 5/24/2022

1 hospitalization · 2022054494 · 5/24/2022 · TRECE, INC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Explosion, n.e.c.
Source: Bottles, jugs, flasks
Secondary source: Multiple aromatics and hydrocarbon derivatives, except halogenated

Employer

Name: TRECE, INC.
Location: 7569 HWY 28 WEST, ADAIR, OKLAHOMA, 74330
NAICS: 334519
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

A chemist was finishing a reaction. He added paraformaldehyde to a Grignard solution in a 5-liter glass jacketed reactor. The reaction mixture over-pressurized and the reactor shattered, spreading shards of glass throughout the room. The chemist sustained lacerations to the chest and thigh.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown