CENTRAL STATES ROOFING CO.
Contact with hot objects or substances - Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado
| Employer | CENTRAL STATES ROOFING CO. |
| Address | 1450 Academy Park Loop, Atlas Prep High School |
| City, State ZIP | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado 80910 |
| Report ID | 2019055178 |
| Event Date | May 22, 2019 |
| Outcome | Hospitalized |
| Nature of Injury | Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns |
| Body Part | Forearm(s) |
| Event Type | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| Source of Injury | Roofing asphalt, roofing tar |
| Secondary Source | Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered |
| Industry (NAICS) | 238160 |
| GPS Coordinates | 38.81205, -104.75454 |
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Incident Narrative
A crew was applying hot asphalt to a built-up roof. They were tearing off the old roof and applying layers of asphalt and roofing materials to build the roof up at several layers. Asphalt is heated on the ground and built up through a pipe, put into a pie boy and a low-profile mop cart (400 to 500 degrees F), and applied to the roof with a mop that spreads hot asphalt at the right thickness. Because the asphalt cools quickly, the crew had to lay it out in a grid on rolls of felt. The injured employee was dry-setting some felt while others were mopping. He was walking backwards and bent over, rolling out the felt. As he walked back to the cart, someone called out to him. He then fell over the tires and back onto the hot cart, rolled to the side to try and avoid the hot asphalt, but tipped over the cart. His inside forearm and outside forearm came into contact with hot asphalt, suffering third degree burns.
Incident Summary
On May 22, 2019, a worker at CENTRAL STATES ROOFING CO. in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado suffered third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns to the forearm(s). The incident was classified as contact with hot objects or substances, with roofing asphalt, roofing tar identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.
Context
OSHA has recorded 1,902 severe injury reports involving "Contact with hot objects or substances" incidents in our database. Browse all Contact with hot objects or substances injuries.
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