# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at B & D Industrial
> OSHA SIR `2021075952` · 7/20/2021 · MACON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **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:** Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers
## Employer
- **Name:** B & D Industrial
- **Location:** 607 Lower Poplar St, MACON, GEORGIA, 31201
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering machinery into a vat of caustic chemical using an electric hoist and crane. An I-bolt (screwed into the heavy machinery and also being held by the hoist) broke, and the machinery dropped into the vat. Caustic splashed the employee's clothing, who suffered burns and was hospitalized.

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