# Fractures and burns at Wastewater Specialties, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021098342` · 9/27/2021 · SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **5 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion or fire on water vehicle
- **Source:** Water vehicle, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wastewater Specialties, LLC
- **Location:** 900 LA- 108, SULPHUR, LOUISIANA, 70665
- **NAICS:** 541620
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Five workers of two employers (Wastewater Specialties, LLC and Westlake Chemical Lake Charles South) were hospitalized when a flash fire in a vessel occurred. Two employees were on an elevated platform welding a flange onto a 54-inch segment of process piping at the quench tower. Three other workers were engaged in a hydro blasting operation. Employee 1 suffered head trauma, lacerations, and burns. Employee 2 suffered a lower leg/ankle injury. The other workers sustained 2nd and 3rd degree burns to face and torso, and fractures to their arms and legs.

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