Incident date: 2019-06-18
NAICS industry code: 483211

On June 18, 2019, at approximately 1:30 AM, two employees were blowing out an asphalt hose after loading a barge when the lines pressurized and blew apart, spraying them with hot liquid asphalt. One of the employees was hospitalized with first, second, and third degree burns.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate