# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Broadhead Boring, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022108794` · 10/6/2022 · NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Natural gas
## Employer
- **Name:** Broadhead Boring, LLC
- **Location:** Intersection of Dauer Ranch Road and Pieper Road, NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS, 78130
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were making a tie-in on an 8-inch natural gas line by attaching two squeeze-off tools to shut off the line. When the polyethylene pipe was cut, one of the squeeze-off tools failed, causing a leak that resulted in an ignition. One employee was burned over about 50 percent of their body; the other was burned over about 10 percent.

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