# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at Tex-Mex Rentals and Services
> OSHA SIR `2025043560` · 4/16/2025 · MENTONE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Vehicle or machinery fire
- **Source:** Heater treater
- **Secondary source:** Flammable gas  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tex-Mex Rentals and Services
- **Location:** 31.5908, -103.640016, MENTONE, TEXAS, 79754
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a gasket from the top of the open hatch of a heater treater to make weir adjustments on the low pressure vessel when metal-on-metal contact caused a spark that ignited residual gasses. The employee sustained burns to their face, neck and hands.

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