Incident date: 2019-09-10
NAICS industry code: 324121

A truck driver along with another employee had just finished draining a tanker. They were unhooking the hose from the tanker when hot liquid asphalt struck the driver's arm causing severe burns. The driver was hospitalized.

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: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate