Incident date: 2021-02-23
NAICS industry code: 238160

On February 23, 2021, an employee was placing an asphalt keg into a kettle. The keg slipped and hot asphalt splashed out of the kettle and onto the employee's face. The employee suffered facial burns and was hospitalized, requiring surgery to remove the asphalt.

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: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate