# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Revere Smelting & Refining Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017065051` · 6/3/2017 · MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** Revere Smelting & Refining Corporation
- **Location:** 65 BALLARD ROAD, MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, 10941
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was returning to his station at a molten lead kettle when a coworker added a sodium hydroxide treatment too quickly to the molten lead, causing it to react and spill over onto the injured employee. He suffered second degree burns on his left foot and was hospitalized.

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