# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs / Veterans Health Care Administration
> OSHA SIR `2024021705` · 2/24/2024 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors nonchemical
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs / Veterans Health Care Administration
- **Location:** 4500 S. Lancaster Road, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75216
- **NAICS:** 923140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three employees were working on a steam pipe. They had depressurized the line and cut it. As they were preparing to replace the broken pipe section, one of them was struck by pressurized hot water and/or steam, which burned his right arm, chest, and back. He was hospitalized.

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