# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at NCD Technologies LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054477` · 5/12/2025 · MADISON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Phosphorus  elemental
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** NCD Technologies LLC
- **Location:** 510 Charmany Dr., Suite 258, MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53719
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the exterior of a deposition tank (containing red phosphorus) with steel wool from within a fume hood. There was a flash fire inside the fume hood, and the employee suffered burns to the forearms, forehead, cheeks, chin, and right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

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