# Thermal burns  third degree or higher at Mammoth Metal Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2025010029` · 1/2/2025 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  third degree or higher
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonstructural fire  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Lubricating fluids
- **Secondary source:** Torches  welding, cutting
## Employer
- **Name:** Mammoth Metal Recycling
- **Location:** 2019 Ruder Street, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a welding torch to cut up a boom from a fire truck. Oil was leaking from the boom's hydraulics and caught fire, which spread and burned the employee. The employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns.

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