Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified

An employee stumbled and hit his back on a fryer. Hot grease then splashed up and burned his back.

An employee was using a hose to empty flowback water tanks at a drilling rig. When he removed the hose from the tank, he was sprayed with hot flowback water, which burned his arms and torso.

Two employees were using a horizontal drying oven to dry aluminum sludge when they suffered burns to their arms and upper bodies due to a possible propane flashback.

An employee was unhooking a hosed coupling when some hot oil splashed and burned the left side of his face, requiring overnight hospitalization.

An employee was loading molten sulfur into a trailer when the line clogged and the molten sulfur spilled out, burning the front right side of the employee’s head.

An employee was opening the oil tank hatch when a spark ignited the material inside the tank. The employee sustained burns to the face, back and hands.

An employee was pulling water/fluid from a frac tank when he noticed a leak on a neighboring tank. He tried to stop the leak by hitting the valve with an end cap he found on the ground. When the cap hit the valve, it sparked and caused a flash fire. He suffered burns to his […]

An employee saw that the engine on his vehicle was running hot. He was adding fluids to the vehicle when the radiator cap blew off. Hot antifreeze spewed on him, burning his lower arm, chest, and abdomen. He was hospitalized overnight.

On May 08, 2017, at approximately 4:15PM, an employee was firing bird deterrent pyrotechnics as part of the facility bird control program when a spark from the bird gun got into the pyrotechnics bag. The pyrotechnics ignited and caused burns to the left side of his body and arm. He was hospitalized.

An employee was changing out a capsule of dish detergent in the dish machine when product spilled onto his arms. The employee sprayed hot water onto his arms to get the soap off resulting in thermal burns to both arms.