# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Poly-America LP
> OSHA SIR `2017087897` · 8/17/2017 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Resins
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-America LP
- **Location:** 2000 W. Marshall Dr., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting a plastic extrusion line when hot plastic burned his arm. PPE was not worn at the time of the incident.

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