# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Darling Ingredients
> OSHA SIR `2016032347` · 3/18/2016 · BASTROP, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Water
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Darling Ingredients
- **Location:** 2641 FM 2336, BASTROP, TEXAS, 78602
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a machine with a pry bar when the bar slipped, causing him to lose his balance and step backward into a sub-pump hole filled with hot water. The employee sustained 2nd degree burns to his left leg and was hospitalized on March 18, 2016.

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