Incident date: 2021-09-20
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee installed a liquid asphalt hose and was filling a truck at the terminal plant. The hose detached, resulting in hot liquid asphalt spraying onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the face, neck, and hands.

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