Incident date: 2019-03-12
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was suspending a pour pot above an open kettle of hot tar when the wire broke and the pour pot fell into the kettle, splashing hot tar on the employee. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the face and neck.

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 neck
severity: moderate