# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Avery Dennison Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015010083` · 1/5/2015 · FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Plastic injection molding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Avery Dennison Corporation
- **Location:** 224 Industrial Road, FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS, 01420
- **NAICS:** 339940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee's face was burned by hot plastic exploding from an injection molding machine.

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