# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Mississippi Silicon
> OSHA SIR `20161110477` · 11/7/2016 · BURNSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Mississippi Silicon
- **Location:** 80 County Road   210, BURNSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, 38833
- **NAICS:** 333994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a centrifugal furnace to manufacture silicon when the furnace blew out, burning the employee's lower body extremities.

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