# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Waterfront Property Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021054018` · 5/17/2021 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel
- **Secondary source:** Welding and heating handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Waterfront Property Services, LLC
- **Location:** 13630 50th Way N., CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33760
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee cut into a 55-gallon drum with a plasma cutter. Gasoline fumes in the drum ignited and then flamed out. The employee suffered burns to both shins, as well as a laceration to the right temple from a piece of the drum.

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