# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Progress Rail Services Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023098489` · 9/14/2023 · ARAB, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Water
## Employer
- **Name:** Progress Rail Services Corporation
- **Location:** 350 11th Street SW, ARAB, ALABAMA, 35016
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pumping out a parts washer. He went to remove the rear and mid floor panels from the washer and placed his right foot on a structural cross member. As he reached to remove the rear panel cover his right foot slipped into the front right reservoir and was partially submerged in hot water. He sustained burns to his right foot, ankle, and shin.

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