Employee's feet are burned when caustic chemical is spilled

At about 3:30 p.m. on January 2, 2020, an employee was working as a chemical technician for a firm that manufactured miscellaneous food. The firm manufactured nutritional dry food. The employee was working at a fixed facility that comprised a manufacturing and an office area. He was a fulltime regular employee of the employer. He was pumping a caustic soda (HTST caustic, sodium hydroxide, CAS number 1310-73-2, 40 to 50 percent, pH 12 to 14) into a bucket from a drum. For some reason, the pump hose came out of the container. […]