Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14460646 - Employee's forearms burned by hot asphalt

Accident Summary Nr: 14460646 -- Report ID: 0352420 -- Event Date: 07/03/1984
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
14817829	07/31/1984	1611	0	Charles J Miller Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 was standing to the side of a truck tank's discharge pipe. When he removed the protective covering cap, hot asphalt flowed out and burned both his forearms. Subsequent investigation revealed that there had been no previous accidents 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 this was the case with the truck valve behind the protective cap. Since it is difficult 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

Keywords: BURN, TANK TRUCK, WORK RULES, FOREARM, CONSTRUCTION, VALVE, MECH MALFUNCTION, ASPHALT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	14817829			Hospitalized injury	Burn/Scald(Heat)	Chief exec's & gen'l administrators, public admin.

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