# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Wolla Oilfield Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019088071` · 8/6/2019 · WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Propane
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Wolla Oilfield Services, LLC
- **Location:** Clarence Fed Rig 347, WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58854
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually lighting burner boxes on hot oil trucks. When using a cigarette lighter to ignite a pilot burner a liquid propane gas flashback (woof) occurred and the employee suffered flash fire burns to the face and lungs.

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