# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at NLS Paving
> OSHA SIR `2019043947` · 4/17/2019 · NEW ATHENS, OHIO
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Vehicle or machinery fire
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Welding, cutting, and blow torches
## Employer
- **Name:** NLS Paving
- **Location:** on OH 9 about 1/4 mile south of intersection OH 519 and OH 9, NEW ATHENS, OHIO, 43981
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a handheld propane torch to heat the end of another tool. The employee turned the propane torch off and set it on a truck. The truck caught on fire. The employee and another employee tried to suffocate the fire, then used fire extinguishers to put the fire out. Both employees sustained burns to the right arm and face. One employee also sustained a burn to the back. They were both hospitalized.

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