# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Advance Die Casting Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076393` · 7/11/2017 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Forging machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Advance Die Casting Company, LLC
- **Location:** 3760 North Holton Street, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53212
- **NAICS:** 331521
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking away from a furnace when molten metal sprayed from the furnace's crucible hole and contacted his foot, causing second degree burns.

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