Incident date: 2023-10-24
NAICS industry code: 324121

An employee was monitoring the asphalt plant. Hot asphalt bound up in the plant causing a hopper to overflow just as the employee was walking under the hopper. The asphalt was approximately 300-325  F when it fell onto the back of the employee's neck and shoulder. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the neck and shoulder.

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