# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Total Highway Maintenance, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010381` · 1/12/2018 · CEDAR HILL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Total Highway Maintenance, LLC
- **Location:** 930 KCK Way, CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, 75104
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was heating thermoplastic to open a pipe when the hot thermoplastic came through the joints and burned the employee, requiring hospitalization.

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