# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Poole Chemical Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054673` · 5/24/2017 · BORGER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Sulfur and sulfur compounds, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Poole Chemical Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Spur 119 North, BORGER, TEXAS, 79008
- **NAICS:** 325314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading molten sulfur into a trailer when the line clogged and the molten sulfur spilled out, burning the front right side of the employee's head.

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