Exposure to harmful substance through skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue, unspecified · Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Atlantic Alumina, 1111 East Airline Highway, GRAMERCY, LOUISIANA 70052
on — Chemical burns and corrosions, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was opening a valve on a tank and came into contact with corrosive alkali liquids. The employee sustained chemical burns.
An employee had been wearing a training suit while instructing law enforcement trainees in personal defense. Early the following morning, he woke with a fever and a severe headache, requiring hospitalization for a staph infection in his leg.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 325110)
An employee was applying pressure to a tank car loaded with caustic soda solution for post-load leak testing. He twisted the valve plug to check it for leaks when it broke free, releasing the caustic soda solution through the opening. The employee suffered chemical burns to both eyes and to his respiratory tract.
Employees were setting up an 8-inch sewer PVC pipe line. An employee was removing/rolling a scrap PVC pipe off the conveyor when their little fingertip was crushed between the end of the PVC pipe and the post for the overhead bus stop guard (fixed guard). The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was walking by an equipment battery (tank battery) when a leak occurred around a heater that caused a flash fire. He was wearing flame-resistant clothing and sustained burns to his palms and back.
Two employees were removing a recirculation pump from service at an evaporator. They were disconnecting pump flanges and couplings from the motor when boiling water burst out from the system. Both employees sustained second-degree burns to the chest, stomach, and arms.
On December 9, 2024, an employee was cleaning out a mixtruder. While he was retrieving some residual pieces of silicone left inside, its rotating blades caught the fingers of his right hand resulting in amputation of all four fingers. The thumb was left intact.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.