# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Southern Field Maintenance and Fabrication, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `20171110645` · 11/5/2017 · CEDAR SPRINGS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Field Maintenance and Fabrication, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 12551 Highway 273 West, CEDAR SPRINGS, GEORGIA, 39832
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working inside a power boiler (permit-required confined space) while arc gouging (cutting) a 30-foot long by 27-inch wide I-beam into 5-foot sections. He was standing on the I-beam he was cutting and another I-beam that was positioned 6 inches away. The I-beam he was gouging shifted after he finished cutting through it and moved toward the adjacent I-beam. As the I-beam shifted, it caught his right arm between the I-beams. He sustained third degree burns to his right forearm and hand from the I-beams, which were heated from the arc gouging process.

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