# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at YRC Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161212051` · 12/22/2016 · CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** YRC Inc.
- **Location:** 2000 Lincoln Highway, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up a hazmat spill when some of the dust got under his mask burning his mouth and throat.

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