# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Triple H Specialty Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021097554` · 9/2/2021 · HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Dust explosion
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Triple H Specialty Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 142 McPherson Dr., HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA, 31539
- **NAICS:** 333996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking a break by a baghouse after shoveling hot pellets that were being expelled from a cooler. While the pellets were still being expelled from the cooler hopper, a flame shot out of the discharge pipe, then backdrafted up the pipe into the cooler and then into the bag house. The employee suffered burns to the hands and arms from the resulting explosion.

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