# Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified at Reilly Plating Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021076268` · 7/28/2021 · NANTICOKE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Grates and drains in floor surface
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Reilly Plating Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 130 Alden Road, NANTICOKE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18634
- **NAICS:** 332813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 7/28/2021, an employee was cleaning up product on a powder coating line that had crashed into a support grate. The product pulled the support grate, which caused the employee's left leg to fall into a tank of iron phosphate up to their knee and resulted in chemical burns to their lower left leg.

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