# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Continental Carbon Company Plant
> OSHA SIR `2022043335` · 4/18/2022 · SUNRAY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Continental Carbon Company Plant
- **Location:** 11702 Carbon Black Road, SUNRAY, TEXAS, 79086
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working around a shallow pit of carbon black. The employee slipped on carbon black residue and lost his balance. To avoid falling face first into the pit, he jumped in. He was submerged waist deep, and the hot carbon black burned both his legs. He was hospitalized.

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