# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at McAbee Construction
> OSHA SIR `20171111080` · 11/17/2017 · MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Vehicle or machinery fire
- **Source:** Compactors, crushers, pulverizers-earth, mineral
## Employer
- **Name:** McAbee Construction
- **Location:** Plant Daniel, MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 39562
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were working on a pulverizer on a second-floor mezzanine. They stopped to allow utility workers to look into a different pulverizer, which had coal dust inside it and was approximately 20 feet away. The utility work produced a spark that ignited the coal dust, generating a fire ball that traveled horizontally and burned the two employees  arms and faces. One employee was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*