# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at True Temper Sports, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022054397` · 5/19/2022 · AMORY, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-power not determined, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** True Temper Sports, Inc.
- **Location:** 931 True Temper Circle, AMORY, MISSISSIPPI, 38821
- **NAICS:** 339920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reinstalling an agitator pump at the edge of a heated liquid salt tank (600 degrees F). The bottom of the pump rests on a mount and the pump is attached to it with bolts. The alignment tool slipped out of the bolt hole and the employee's left hand contacted the heated liquid salt resulting in burns to the knuckles on his hand.

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