# Thermal burns  second degree at Professional Boiler Services, INC
> OSHA SIR `2024053887` · 5/3/2024 · AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  second degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors nonchemical
- **Secondary source:** Boilers
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Boiler Services, INC
- **Location:** 1610 Marvin Giffin Road, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 30903
- **NAICS:** 332410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting up a water-tube-style boiler after shutdown when the manway cover gasket failed, evacuating pressurized steam and hot water into the boiler room. The employee was on a mezzanine deck while the room rapidly filled with steam, causing second-degree burns to both of their arms from fingertips to the elbows.

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