# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at Lime Rock Resources V-A, LP
> OSHA SIR `2025054583` · 5/15/2025 · WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Flash fire
- **Source:** Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lime Rock Resources V-A, LP
- **Location:** Jore Yellowstone Tank Battery, WATFORD CITY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58854
- **NAICS:** 211120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting the facility. There was a frozen injection line. The employee was going to put methanol in the line to thaw it out. He isolated the line to pour in the methanol and was bleeding off the gas inside the isolated line. He opened up the needle valve. A flash fire occurred. He reached up to shut the needle valve and sustained burns to his left ear, face, and left hand. The employee was hospitalized.

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