# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Wolfe Dye & Bleach Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171111044` · 11/16/2017 · SHOEMAKERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Steam, vapors-nonchemical
- **Secondary source:** Dyeing machinery-textile
## Employer
- **Name:** Wolfe Dye & Bleach Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 25 Ridge Road, SHOEMAKERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19555
- **NAICS:** 313312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had placed fabric in a dye machine that uses hot steam to help the dye. The employee came back to check on the product and stopped the machine. When the pin released to open the door, hot steam came out of the port hole and burned the employee's forehead.

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