# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Element Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181011101` · 10/27/2018 · BRIGGSDALE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, unspecified
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Hand grinders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Element Services, LLC
- **Location:** Highway 14 between 83-85, BRIGGSDALE, COLORADO, 80611
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were constructing a tank battery and removing a bottom hatch with a grinder when a fire and explosion occurred from an empty tank. The injured employee received body burns that required hospitalization.

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