Incident date: 2021-02-25
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was refilling a kettle used to lay asphalt when hot asphalt spilled on his right arm and forearm, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

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: Multiple arm locations, unspecified
severity: moderate