# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at HIGHWAY TRANSPORT, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20191111456` · 11/3/2019 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to other harmful substance-multiple routes of exposure
- **Source:** Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
## Employer
- **Name:** HIGHWAY TRANSPORT, INC.
- **Location:** 2305 Sherwin Street, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75041
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just hooked up to a bulk chemical trailer and was performing a pre-trip inspection. Caustic soda ash blew from a rail car inside the plant and the employee sustained chemical burns to the eyes, face, throat, and lungs.

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