Incident date: 2023-05-17
NAICS industry code: 238160

A roofing employee was installing tile underlayment using a hot asphalt application. The employee slipped and grabbed a bucket of hot tar to gain balance. The hot tar then spilled on the employee, and he fell from a one-story roof onto the bushes below. The employee sustained burns on his arms and back.

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