# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Taylor Machine Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010168` · 1/5/2018 · LOUISVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source
- **Source:** Clothing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Taylor Machine Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 3690 N. Church Ave., LOUISVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, 39339
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to warm himself near a commercial floor heater. As he walked away from the heater, he felt heat close to his neck and realized his clothes were on fire. He rolled to extinguish the flame, but his left and right shoulders received second and third degree burns and both hands suffered first degree burns.

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