# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Silgan Plastics Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021043545` · 4/29/2021 · TRIADELPHIA, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Silgan Plastics Corporation
- **Location:** 475 Technology Drive, TRIADELPHIA, WEST VIRGINIA, 26059
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee changed out a press mold and heated a nozzle with a torch to purge the press out. After the employee was finished heating the nozzle, he went to close the front door when degraded plastic came out of the barrel and onto his right arm. The employee suffered burns to his arm that required hospitalization.

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