# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Salem Tube, Inc. A Division of Tubacex
> OSHA SIR `2016021422` · 2/16/2016 · GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Natural gas
## Employer
- **Name:** Salem Tube, Inc. A Division of Tubacex
- **Location:** 951 4th Street, GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16125
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was relighting an industrial furnace that went out.  Gas had built-up in the furnace and when the employee attempted the relight, an explosion/flash fire knocking the employee backwards and causing burns to the face.

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