Tti Environmental Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Sep 25, 2019: Employee incurs skin burns when splashed with corrosive chem

At 3:45 p.m. on September 25, 2019, an employee who worked for a company providing environmental services was working with a coworker at a customer facility performing demolition work. The employee was cutting and draining a one-inch steel pipe running from the process tanks. The pipe ran from a ground floor level diaphragm pump to the process tanks on the 2nd level of the plant mezzanine. The line contained Troy Chemical Corporation Polyphase AF1 (CP0034B), a broad-spectrum non-metallic fungicide solution which is corrosive. The employee was draining the chemical into a black plastic pan. He was handing the pan to the coworker when he spilled the chemical on his right leg and the center of his abdoman. The employee incurred severe burns to his right leg and stomach and was hospitalized.