# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Baldwin Paving Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010320` · 10/2/2019 · AUSTELL, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
- **Source:** Co-worker
- **Secondary source:** Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
## Employer
- **Name:** Baldwin Paving Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 7520 Factory Shoals Rd, AUSTELL, GEORGIA, 30168
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a verbal altercation with a coworker. The site foreman intervened and the employee began walking away. As the employee was walking away, the coworker assaulted him from behind with a punch to the head. He lost consciousness and fell into hot asphalt that had been freshly poured nearby. He was hospitalized with burns to the left side of the face, the left shoulder, and left forearm.

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