# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Rocky Mountain Specialty Services
> OSHA SIR `2017010148` · 1/6/2017 · SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Food products, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rocky Mountain Specialty Services
- **Location:** 2100 E. Overland Dr., SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA, 69361
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out a heat exchanger when hot material blew back and burned 50 percent of the employee's body.

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