# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Fluor Maintenance Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022042948` · 4/3/2022 · NEW ROADS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Fluor Maintenance Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 10431 Cajun II Rd., NEW ROADS, LOUISIANA, 70760
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew of Fluor Maintenance Services employees was replacing an expansion joint in an I/O box at a power plant. One of the employees was using a grinder to prepare metal to install and weld the joint when steam entered the work area and burned his back. He was hospitalized.

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