# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Fisher Tank Company
> OSHA SIR `2016021314` · 2/11/2016 · FULTON, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** Fisher Tank Company
- **Location:** AEP Power Station, FULTON, ARKANSAS, 71838
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was mig welding on a vertical seam on a 137-ft-diameter, 40 ft.-high open-top above-ground steel storage tank when a piece of hot slag dropped down onto his right boot. His leg began swelling and he was later hospitalized with right ankle burns.

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