# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Advantek Waste Management Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181111731` · 11/14/2018 · KENEDY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Advantek Waste Management Services LLC
- **Location:** 540 FM 2985, KENEDY, TEXAS, 78119
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a front-end loader to push flowback solids into the solids bay when fumes from a liquid were ignited causing a flash fire and burning the employee's face and the backside of a hand.

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