# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group
> OSHA SIR `2016032360` · 3/18/2016 · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Fats, oils, cooking greases
## Employer
- **Name:** Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group
- **Location:** 4688 A Broadway, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18104
- **NAICS:** 722210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee filtered oil in a fryer, the hose used to circulate the oil though the filter came loose, and the oil flowed out onto employee. The employee suffered facial and right arm burns.

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