# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Waters Truck & Tractor Company
> OSHA SIR `2023032054` · 3/6/2023 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Waters Truck & Tractor Company
- **Location:** 4335 Carson Rd, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning pulp stock using a fire hose. The employee's hard hat fell off and the employee reached to grab it, causing them to fall off the working platform into the pulp stock. The employee sustained second-degree burns.

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