Incident date: 2017-03-28
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee was using a hose to unload a tank of hot asphalt when the hose broke, allowing the asphalt to splash and burn the employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate