Incident date: 2021-06-30
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was carrying a bucket of hot roofing tar. He was walking to the back of the building when the wind blew a tarp into his path and onto his feet. The employee stumbled and hot tar fell out of the bucket, landing on the employee's arms, from the elbows to the hands. The employee sustained third and fourth degree burns requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Trip over an object without fall
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate