# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023087097` · 8/4/2023 · BENSENVILLE, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.
- **Location:** 649 IL Route 83, BENSENVILLE, ILLINOIS, 60106
- **NAICS:** 331523
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning sludge out of the furnace when molten metal splashed out and burned their hands and the top of their head.

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