# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at Valero Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032394` · 3/10/2018 · CHALMETTE, LOUISIANA
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Pressure lines, except hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Valero Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1615 East Judge Perez Drive, CHALMETTE, LOUISIANA, 70043
- **NAICS:** 324110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking samples and reading gauges when the sight glass blew out on a flake caustic line. The blow-out caused lacerations to the employee's arm, face, and chest and chemical burns to his face and right hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*