# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at International Paper
> OSHA SIR `2016098535` · 9/9/2016 · EIGHTY FOUR, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** International Paper
- **Location:** 10 Wilson Road, EIGHTY FOUR, PENNSYLVANIA, 15330
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the tear tape machine and was loosening bolts to the supporting bar when the bar fell and forced his right hand down and into the hot plate area. He suffered third-degree burns on the back of his right hand.

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