# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at Attic Breeze, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017109450` · 10/2/2017 · GATESVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Small-scale (limited) fire
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Attic Breeze, LLC
- **Location:** 1370 FM 116, GATESVILLE, TEXAS, 76528
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee took a vacuum of powder to the burn pit where another employee had been burning scrap wood, old pallets and boxes. The employee dumped the vacuum of powder onto the burn pit and the fire reignited. The employee received first and second degree burns to both legs.

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