# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Ingalls Shipbuilding
> OSHA SIR `20171010085` · 10/20/2017 · PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Welding and heating handtools-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ingalls Shipbuilding
- **Location:** 1000 Jerry St Pe' Highway, PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, 39568
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a bilge keel chock on a DDG unit when his oxygen/fuel gas hose caught fire and severely burned him.

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