# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at Industrial Valve Sales and Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054359` · 5/8/2025 · SAINT FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Washing, refining, and pulping machinery paper production
- **Secondary source:** Other hydrocarbon gas
## Employer
- **Name:** Industrial Valve Sales and Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 2105 LA-964 St Francisville, LA 70775, SAINT FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70775
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were checking for leaks and cracks on a recovery boiler. Another crew was welding inside the boiler, and an acetylene leak created a ball of fire that emerged from a valve and struck the two employees. One of them suffered burns to the right palm and face and the other suffered burns to the face.

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