# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at ROTH BROTHERS INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017054357` · 5/12/2017 · YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Flammable gas, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hand grinders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** ROTH BROTHERS INC.
- **Location:** 1 Performance Pl, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, 44502
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a piece of duct work to size using a grinder with a cut-off wheel. The pipe was staged on the back of a truck parked approximately 5 feet from two manhole covers. As the employee was cutting, vapors from an underground tank beneath the manhole covers ignited, causing first degree flash burns to the employee's torso, chest, hands, arms, head, face, neck, and back and second degree burns to the chest and hands.

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