Incident date: 2019-05-13
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was using a scraper to clean debris from an asphalt paver when his safety vest became caught on the paver and he was pulled in toward the auger. He was hospitalized with second and third degree burns from the mid-torso to the armpit. The paver was running at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Asphalt and concrete paving machines, pavers
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate