OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14460646
CHARLES J MILLER INC
HAMPSTEAD, MD—
Event description
Employee's forearms burned by hot asphalt
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing to the side of a truck tank's discharge pipe. When he r emoved the protective covering cap, hot asphalt flowed out and burned both his f orearms. Subsequent investigation revealed that there had been no previous accid ents of this kind, but that there had been problems with children riding on the rear of the trucks, and stealing from or tampering with them. It appears that th is was the case with the truck valve behind the protective cap. Since it is diff icult to determine by sight if the valve has been altered, management installed a chain lock on the valve, for which only the truck driver has the key. Employee #1 had operated asphalt trucks for 20 years
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 4
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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