Incident date: 2015-09-02
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was repairing a commercial roof when he stepped off a small drop and lost his balance. He grabbed onto the hot mop cart to keep from falling and he was splashed with hot asphalt, sustaining burns to his head and back and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Roofing asphalt, roofing tar
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate