# Thermal burns  second degree at Evergreen Siteworks, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010568` · 1/17/2025 · AUBURN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  second degree
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Petroleum-based fuels
- **Secondary source:** Other tools, instruments, equipment  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Evergreen Siteworks, LLC
- **Location:** GPS_Coordinates: 32.635400, -85.501800, AUBURN, ALABAMA, 36830
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 17, 2025, an employee was starting a tree limb and stump burn pile at an excavation site using diesel fuel and a starter stick. The wind shifted and vapors ignited causing a fire. The employee sustained second-degree burns to their face, arms, and knees and was hospitalized.

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