# Thermal burns  third degree or higher at Kimberly Contracting Service LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241211466` · 12/11/2024 · WEST NEWTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  third degree or higher
## Cause
- **Event:** Fire  small-scale, limited
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Flammable and combustible liquids and solids  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kimberly Contracting Service LLC
- **Location:** 421 North 2nd Street, WEST NEWTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15089
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was burning cardboard boxes. He poured a flammable chemical on the boxes, and then his clothes caught on fire. The employee was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns to 33% of his body.

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