# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at ROWELL ROOFING, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015096350` · 9/2/2015 · PRENTISS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Roofing asphalt, roofing tar
## Employer
- **Name:** ROWELL ROOFING, INC.
- **Location:** 150 J.E. Johnson Rd., PRENTISS, MISSISSIPPI, 39474
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a commercial roof when he stepped off a small drop and lost his balance. He grabbed onto the hot mop cart to keep from falling and he was splashed with hot asphalt, sustaining burns to his head and back and requiring hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*