# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Wheelabrator Saugus, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032567` · 3/21/2017 · SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheelabrator Saugus, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Salem Turnpike, SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS, 01906
- **NAICS:** 562213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out a super heater hopper and was burned by hot ash.

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