# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Turner Steel Company Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2019043731` · 4/11/2019 · WEST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
- **Source:** Clothing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Turner Steel Company Incorporated
- **Location:** 128 North Main Street, WEST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, 02379
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting steel at a burning table. His clothes caught fire and he suffered burns to the chest and face.

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