# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at ARG Trucking Corp
> OSHA SIR `2025021579` · 2/17/2025 · LEWIS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Petroleum-based fuels
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** ARG Trucking Corp
- **Location:** 8854 Route 59, LEWIS RUN, PENNSYLVANIA, 16738
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

One of the compartments where hoses hook up on a truck was frozen. An employee took the truck home and used a torpedo heater to unfreeze the hose area of the compartment. He then used a lever and the compartment opened. Some diesel fuel spilled out of a hose and caught on fire, burning the employee and the trailer.

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