# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at WorkSource Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076556` · 7/20/2016 · KAHOKA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Liquids, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** WorkSource Inc.
- **Location:** 275 Myrtle Rd., KAHOKA, MISSOURI, 63445
- **NAICS:** 541990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was filling candle forms with hot wax. Hot wax leaked onto the floor. The employee slipped on the hot wax and fell on the wax suffering third degree burns to the right calf and first degree burns to other parts of the body.

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