Incident date: 2015-04-23
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee operating an asphalt tank truck was attempting to open the hatch on the trailer to unload the asphalt. The hatch blew open and hot asphalt landed on the employee's body. The employee fell off the trailer and was burned by the hot asphalt. The employee suffered second and third degree burns over his entire body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
code_body: title: Whole body
severity: moderate