# Thermal burns  second degree at H.E. NEUMANN COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2024065214` · 6/12/2024 · INDUSTRIAL, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  second degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Blow torches  except welding
## Employer
- **Name:** H.E. NEUMANN COMPANY
- **Location:** Salem Correctional Center, INDUSTRIAL, WEST VIRGINIA, 26426
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was heating up a discharge refrigerant line on a compressor using a torch to replace the compressor. When he went to remove the line from the compressor, a fireball exited the compressor line burning his left forearm, wrist and hand. The employee was hospitalized for second-degree burns to the left forearm and hand.

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