# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Lightning Rod and Pipe, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015129493` · 12/15/2015 · HUMBLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Aromatics, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lightning Rod and Pipe, LLC
- **Location:** 1250 Indiana Street, HUMBLE, TEXAS, 77396
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Four employees were taken to the hospital for burns on their face and hands when a machine blew out hot polyphenylene sulfide (chemical). The chemical is used to manufacturer insulator pipes.   The employees were trouble shooting the extruder when they were burned.  Two employees were hospitalized.

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