# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Atlas Industrial Contractors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015075299` · 7/31/2015 · HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors-nonchemical
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlas Industrial Contractors, LLC
- **Location:** Steel of WV, HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 25703
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spraying water onto scrap steel that had spilled out of a furnace and had been cut into pieces using an oxygen lance. A steam explosion occurred, causing a second degree steam burn to his face and hands.  He was hospitalized.

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