# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at QPS Employment Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088782` · 8/24/2018 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
## Employer
- **Name:** QPS Employment Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Impact Confections, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53546
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was sanitizing hard candy tumblers, a bucket of sodium hydroxide cleaner spilled and the chemical splashed onto the legs of his coveralls and jeans. It soaked through, burning his knees. He was hospitalized.

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