# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Brennan Services
> OSHA SIR `2021020895` · 2/1/2021 · TRIADELPHIA, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Brennan Services
- **Location:** 38 Technology Drive, TRIADELPHIA, WEST VIRGINIA, 26059
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees had been pumping out oil and gas waste water from a tanker truck. Vapors/fumes from the condensate mixed in with the waste water caught fire when a torpedo heater started up and a spark shot out of the back. Two employees sustained multiple second and third degree burns and were hospitalized.

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