Incident date: 2022-05-10
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was training on the operation of the tack truck. Vibrations from the tack truck's engine moved the lever that activates the sprayer and hot liquefied tar was discharged onto the employee causing severe burns to both his forearms.

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: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate