# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. - Orrtanna Faciltiy
> OSHA SIR `2015010286` · 1/8/2015 · ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. - Orrtanna Faciltiy
- **Location:** 1505 Orrtanna Road, ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17353
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about January 8, 2014, at 10:40 p.m., an employee was hospitalized for burns after cleaning the juice processing tank. He was burned on his forehead, abdomen, hands, thighs, and ankles when hot steam blew out of the tank, struck him, and forced him off the 8-foot ladder that he was using to perform his daily task.

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