# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Climate Heating and Cooling, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016021778` · 2/29/2016 · PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Existing floor opening
## Employer
- **Name:** Climate Heating and Cooling, INC.
- **Location:** 146 Hubbard Avenue, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01201
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the first floor when he was called down to the basement level to assist with a repair. Coworkers had drained water from a boiler into a sump pit, which was approximately 3 feet deep and 2 feet in diameter. There was no cover on the pit, and the sump pump had trouble keeping up with the volume of water being added and quickly filled up. When the employee came down from the first floor to help, he fell into the sump pit and suffered second and third degree burns on his lower torso, legs, and hands. He was hospitalized.

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