# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Eureka Stone Quarry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109804` · 10/24/2023 · MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
## Employer
- **Name:** Eureka Stone Quarry, Inc.
- **Location:** 460 US Route 6, MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, 18337
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring the asphalt plant. Hot asphalt bound up in the plant causing a hopper to overflow just as the employee was walking under the hopper. The asphalt was approximately 300-325  F when it fell onto the back of the employee's neck and shoulder. The employee was hospitalized with burns to the neck and shoulder.

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