[Translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

An employee of the Aluminum of Kazakhstan enterprise received a severe burn from alkali, 19 September 2023

The woman is in intensive care.

At a large enterprise in Pavlodar, JSC Aluminum of Kazakhstan, alkali splashed onto a worker...

The accident...was reported by the labor department.

The victim was taken to the intensive care unit.

“She is in a continuous functioning bed with a supply of heated sterile air. The patient’s condition is stable and serious. She is conscious. The thermochemical burn covered 22% of the body,” the press service of the first city hospital reported...

The plant management organised an investigation into the accident.