Incident date: 2018-10-02
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was on a ladder, holding a bucket of hot asphalt. He lost his balance and fell to the ground; the asphalt splashed onto him, burning his face, arms and legs. He was hospitalized.

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: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate