Incident date: 2017-10-12
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was removing hot tar from a hot pipe and placing it in a lugger when the wire broke, causing the lugger to fall on the employee. He received burns to the left side of his face, his left arm, and the back of his neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with hot objects or substances
code_source: title: Roofing asphalt, roofing tar
code_nature: title: Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate