Incident date: 2022-02-04
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was walking backward to check on a sensor on an asphalt machine when he stepped onto a manhole cover that gave away. The employee slipped and fell onto the side of the manhole and the hot asphalt, resulting in a back injury and burns to his arms.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface
code_source: title: Manhole and cistern covers
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate