# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016032614` · 3/29/2016 · SANTA ROSA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Food products, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.
- **Location:** 1300 Highway 107, SANTA ROSA, TEXAS, 78593
- **NAICS:** 311311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were about to take samples of hot sugar cane juice as the machine was processing the sugar cane. An air bubble inside the line caused the line to burp, and 200-degree hot sugar cane juice inside the line splattered onto the employees. 
Two employees sustained first and second degree burns.

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