# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at Page's Place Cafe And Grill
> OSHA SIR `2025077463` · 7/30/2025 · WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Fats, oils, cooking greases
- **Secondary source:** Frying and pressurized cooking equipment, appliances
## Employer
- **Name:** Page's Place Cafe And Grill
- **Location:** 700 West Kemp Avenue, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57201
- **NAICS:** 722511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to change the cooking oil in a 1-gallon countertop fryer. The fryer was held in place by three C-clamps. When two of the clamps were removed, the fryer fell and the hot oil contacted the employee from the waist down. The employee sustained burns to their lower body.

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