OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14194252
HEAD,MAINTENANCE,REPAIR,LOCKOUT,CONTROL MALFUNCTION,TAG,BURIED,FACE,ASPHALT
Event description
Employee Burned by Hot Tar
Investigation abstract
Two employees of an asphalt manufacturing plant were required to make repairs on re asphalt, exceeding manufacturing capacity. Molten asphalt began to flow from the storage container into the weigh bucket. The normal operational capacity was 500 lbs and the maximum capacity was 1100 lbs. The molten asphalt exceeded the maximum capacity and began to overflow. At that time, Employee #1 was walking by the area and was splattered by the overflowing asphalt. He suffered minor burns on his head and face and was hospitalized. the screen deck area of the plant. An employee pulled the circuit breaker for t he screen deck area and locked the control panel housing the circuit breaker. A second employee then started the plant to gain access to the screen deck area. O peration of the control panel was turned over to a contractor employee who was t o perform the preventive maintenance operations on the control system. The contr actor employee activated the system. The control system had not been properly de energized and the control panel began to display erratic readings. The asphalt p roduction system interpreted the erratic readings as an indication to produce mo
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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