# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at Vasco Asphalt Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025076377` · 7/2/2025 · LANCASTER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Hot or molten materials  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Vasco Asphalt Company, LLC
- **Location:** 6675 Cincinnati Zanesville Rd, LANCASTER, OHIO, 43130
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adding a solid block of crack filling compound into equipment for melting and it flamed up. The employee subsequently dropped the solid block into the heated material and the hot liquid splashed onto his head and face.

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