Incident date: 2015-12-16
NAICS industry code: 325194

On December 16, 2015, at approximately 2:52p.m., an employee was hospitalized after receiving burns to his neck, ears, head, and hands.  The employee was preparing to unload a coal tar pitch railcar.  The line on the railcar was opened without relieving pressure and material sprayed onto the worker.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Tars, sealants, caulking, insulation, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate