# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Arrow Gear Company
> OSHA SIR `2018043504` · 4/12/2018 · DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** Arrow Gear Company
- **Location:** 2301 Curtiss St., DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60515
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a shim in the pit furnace when he suffered second and third degree burns to his torso.

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