Incident date: 2020-12-02
NAICS industry code: 324122

While assisting a coworker, an employee was cracking a suction line to determine if hot asphalt was unloading from a truck when they were sprayed with the 460 degree hot asphalt. The employee sustained second degree burns to the left side of their nose, cheek, ear lobe, chin, and part of their neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Second degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate