# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Ranger Excavating, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2022065177` · 6/15/2022 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Antifreeze
- **Secondary source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ranger Excavating, L.P.
- **Location:** 80 Red River, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78701
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to service an excavator. He opened the radiator cap to add coolant and was sprayed in the face by hot coolant resulting in burns across his face.

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