# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at H.B. Fuller Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098577` · 9/17/2023 · TUCKER, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** H.B. Fuller Company
- **Location:** 2777 Tucker Industrial Road, TUCKER, GEORGIA, 30084
- **NAICS:** 325520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting and turning a hand valve used to provide draining to the filter basket. Molten plastic discharged from the valve into a bucket and then ricocheted onto the employee's hands. The employee was hospitalized with thermal burns to three fingers on his right hand and one finger on his left hand.

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