# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Elmwood Reapir and Maintenance
> OSHA SIR `20181010774` · 10/18/2018 · BELLE CHASSE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Welding, cutting, and blow torches
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Elmwood Reapir and Maintenance
- **Location:** 222 Bayou Road, BELLE CHASSE, LOUISIANA, 70037
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a front rubber bumper on a vessel when the rubber bumper came loose, striking the scaffold the employee was standing on. The employee fell approximately 6 feet to the ground with a torch in hand and was burned on the left upper thigh and upper left neck.

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