RNN media information for journalists and the press - Press Releases - Tyneside firm fined after worker suffers toxic chemical burns - Regional News Network: A Tyneside firm has been fined after a worker was soaked with a concentrated, corrosive chemical and suffered serious burns.
Michael Reid, 66, of North Shields, was employed as an electroplater at DMI (UK) Ltd when the incident happened on 30 January 2011.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard how as part of an electroplating process, the company used a stripping tank filled with a sodium hydroxide solution, which from time to time had to be topped up with a concentrate of the chemical.
Mr Reid was topping up the tank, by pumping the highly-caustic concentrated sodium hydroxide from a drum into the tank, when the hose attached to the pump came off, soaking him in the corrosive chemical.
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