# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Berntsen Brass & Aluminum Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010157` · 1/6/2017 · PHELPS, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forging machinery
- **Secondary source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** Berntsen Brass & Aluminum Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 2527 State Highway 15, PHELPS, WISCONSIN, 54554
- **NAICS:** 331529
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a zinc ingot into an induction melting electric furnace. When the zinc ingot contacted the molten metal, the furnace blew up, causing severe burns to the employee's upper body and minor burns to a coworker.

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