# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at PSE&G
> OSHA SIR `20171212005` · 12/18/2017 · EAST ISLIP, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Petroleum fuels, distillates, and products, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** PSE&G
- **Location:** 40 Wyandanch Ave., EAST ISLIP, NEW YORK, 11730
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a bucket lift raised to the level of a transformer on a utility pole. The employee had turned off the breaker and cut the power when hot oil sprayed or leaked from the transformer, contacting and burning the employee's face, neck, and back.

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