# Fractures and burns at Skye Blue Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020054220` · 5/6/2020 · KERMIT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Skye Blue Services, LLC
- **Location:** Black Beard site, KERMIT, TEXAS, 79745
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three employees were cleaning a heater treater when a gas build-up caused an explosion in the building. Two of the employees received minor injuries; the third was hospitalized, having suffered a severe laceration across the forehead, burns to the face and neck, and a fractured spine.

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