# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Quality Electric Steel Casters
> OSHA SIR `20221210997` · 12/19/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
- **Source:** Clothing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Electric Steel Casters
- **Location:** 252 McCarty Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 332510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working near an open flame heater when the flames contacted the employee's clothing and caught fire. The employee sustained second-degree burns to the hands and third-degree burns to the lower back.

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