# Thermal burns  second degree at Thorpe Plant Services, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025010261` · 1/8/2025 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  second degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Multiple raw and semi-finished materials and byproducts
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Thorpe Plant Services, Inc
- **Location:** 2027 Independence Pkwy S, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a skid steer to remove slag and ash from an incinerator afterburner. When the employee scooped up a bucket full of ash, steam and hot ash dust entered the lower part of the skid steer and came in contact with the employee's wrist and lower leg. The employee suffered first-degree burns to both wrists and first- and second-degree burns to both legs between the knee and the ankle, including a second-degree burn to an area around the left ankle.

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