Long-serving employee drenched in corrosive chemical

摘要

A worker who had racked up nearly half a century of employment for a Tyneside electroplating company retired just months after an incident in which he suffered serious burns from a highly-caustic chemical. Michael Reid, 66, of North Shields, was employed as an electroplater at DMI (UK) Ltd when the incident happened, on 30 January 2011. Magistrates heard how, as part of an electroplating production process, the company used a stripping tank filled with a solution of sodium hydroxide at 5 per cent.