"Buried under ashpalt, AKA Sleeping with the Hoffa's."
I think Hoffa was either shredded and used as fish chum or else took a dive into a vat of molten steel.
That aside, does anyone know the temperature of a load of paving asphalt?
about 350 degrees.
Between 375 and 440 degrees.
(poor man)
hot enough to cause excruciating pain is all I know. Even if it was cool, the weight would have crushed him.
300 degrees loading out of the plant, a tad cooler at arrival - awful hot and sticky!
Asphalt paving mixes come out of the plant at 425 degrees +/- and are in the 350 to 300 degree range when they are placed by the paving crew. The tempeture loss is due to travel time from the plant to the project.
It sounds like the tailgate latch popped and this poor man was standing in the wrong place at the time.
I have been in the paving business for 35 years, my famly for 100, and the second lesson was NEVER stand close to the tailgate on a truck waiting to back into the paver.
I am sure that the asphalt hit him and knoched him down covering him, the burns from the material induced shock which probably caused cardiac arrest.
God Bless, Mother Mary take him to your heart. Amen