# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at TrinityRail Maintenance Services, Inc. Plant 4025
> OSHA SIR `2021098224` · 9/23/2021 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Grates and drains in floor surface
- **Secondary source:** Confined spaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TrinityRail Maintenance Services, Inc. Plant 4025
- **Location:** 2850 Peden Rd., FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76179
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee stepped onto a steel grate covering a 24-inch by 24-inch, 18-inch-deep area of a longer concrete pit containing heated water. The grate shifted and gave way, and the employee stepped into the hot water resulting in thermal burns to both lower legs.

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