Incident date: 2023-08-29
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was waiting inside his truck after spraying liquid asphalt and was building up pressure in the vehicle to spray the next section of roadway. There was a blockage in the spray bar and the seal at the bottom of the truck blew, spraying 300-degree Fahrenheit liquid asphalt onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the chin, forearm, left hand, and abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate