Incident date: 2020-08-21
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee had been conducting flagging operations at an intersection where other employees were applying hot tar to the road. The employee went to get onto the hot tar buggy to ride to the next intersection but fell off the buggy and landed in hot tar that had puddled on the road. The employee sustained burns to his left arm and right hand. He also sustained a bruised left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Road grading and surfacing machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate