Incident date: 2022-08-10
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was using an asphalt pour pot to patch holes in asphalt. The pot tipped over, and hot asphalt caused second-degree burns from his hands to his elbows. He was hospitalized.

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: Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate