# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Amalgamated Sugar
> OSHA SIR `2017098498` · 9/4/2017 · TWIN FALLS, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Food products, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Amalgamated Sugar
- **Location:** 2320 Orchard Dr E, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, 83301
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance and replacing an equipment pump. The employee turned the pump on and opened a valve, which resulted in liquefied sugar spraying onto a product tank and then splashing onto the employee, causing burns.

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