# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company
> OSHA SIR `2021098170` · 9/22/2021 · FARWELL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors-nonchemical
## Employer
- **Name:** Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company
- **Location:** 501032 - US60, FARWELL, TEXAS, 79325
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with cleaning the distributor truck's tank. The distributor tank was still hot causing a rapid release of stems, burning the employee and causing them to fall from the tank to the flatbed work truck. The employee sustained burns to the face and hands, a head contusion, and a laceration above the right eye.

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