# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Braskem America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010842` · 1/25/2018 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, unspecified
- **Source:** Other special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Braskem America, Inc.
- **Location:** 5005 East Highway 332, FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 325110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were performing maintenance and troubleshooting on the B side of a reactor catalyst feed system when the tubing failed on the A side and caused an explosion of hydrocarbon products. Both employees received thermal burns and were hospitalized.

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