# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Extreme Heat Hot Well Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015052971` · 5/18/2015 · SAINT FRANCIS, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonstructural fire, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Clothing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Extreme Heat Hot Well Service, Inc.
- **Location:** County Road 7, SAINT FRANCIS, KANSAS, 67756
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading oil into the gun barrel while on a ladder. The gun barrel caught fire possibly from the electric heating element and ignited the employee's FR clothes. The employee received second degree burns on his forearm, his hand, and behind his ear.

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