# Thermal burns  third degree or higher at Integrated Project Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065890` · 6/20/2025 · DENTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  third degree or higher
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Integrated Project Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 8171 Jim Christal Road, DENTON, TEXAS, 76207
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The general contractor, their subcontractor, and the local utility company were re-energizing a transformer when it exploded. The top of the transformer blew off and hot oil projected into the air. The injured employee was a bystander to the event and was outside of the exclusion area. Hot transformer oil rained down on him and he sustained first, second, and third-degree burns, as well as hearing loss both temporary and permanent in nature.

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