# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at Pryor Chemical Company
> OSHA SIR `2017088016` · 8/21/2017 · PRYOR, OKLAHOMA
## 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:** Nitric acid
## Employer
- **Name:** Pryor Chemical Company
- **Location:** 4463 Hunt St., PRYOR, OKLAHOMA, 74361
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an air pressure hose to drain a nitric acid line into a tote when the hose blew out of the tote and nitric acid burned the employee's legs and groin.

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