# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Brand Energy Solutions
> OSHA SIR `20231211054` · 12/4/2023 · PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and back
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Water
## Employer
- **Name:** Brand Energy Solutions
- **Location:** 1801 S Gulfway Dr, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, 77640
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were building scaffold access under the switch deck by the coke chutes. Two employees were standing on a scaffold platform while passing scaffold material. The coke drum above them was being cut (washed down with water). Heated water left the coke drum through a chute and splashed the two employees. Both employees were hospitalized with first- and second-degree thermal burns to the shoulders and upper back.

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