# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Kinnunen Sales & Rentals
> OSHA SIR `2016010425` · 1/15/2016 · STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Petroleum fuels, distillates, and products, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Welding and heating handtools-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kinnunen Sales & Rentals
- **Location:** 707 E. 6th St., STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA, 74074
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding near waste motor oil.  The waste motor oil caught fire and the employee sustained first to third degree burns to the legs while putting the fire out.

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