# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at ATEC Steel, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019077094` · 7/13/2019 · HOBSON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** ATEC Steel, LLC
- **Location:** 21010 FM 81, HOBSON, TEXAS, 78117
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding the inner rim plate of a pontoon using a wire welding machine with .045 flux-core welding wire. The employee stopped welding and then proceeded to chip the slag from the weld when a piece of hot slag popped off the weld and landed on the employee's right upper and lower eyelids resulting in second-degree burns.

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