Incident date: 2019-04-19
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was walking by a pipe that was placed on a stand to be unclogged of liquid asphalt. The heated asphalt bubbled out of the pipe and onto the employee as he walked by, burning his arms and legs.

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: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate