# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
> OSHA SIR `2023021559` · 2/17/2023 · BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Water
## Employer
- **Name:** Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
- **Location:** 1500 George Wedgworth Way, BELLE GLADE, FLORIDA, 33430
- **NAICS:** 111930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding an eye hook to a bagasse scraper when hot water discharged from the bagasse sprayers behind him, striking the employee. The employee sustained burns on his lower back and lower legs.

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