# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Petro Harvester Operating Company,LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043760` · 4/19/2018 · LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Coal, natural gas, petroleum fuels and products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Petro Harvester Operating Company,LLC
- **Location:** 1119 West 6th Street, LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI, 39440
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inserting a hand held wand with a burning cloth attached to the end into a 4" opening of the main burner valve to ignite the pilot. The flame ignited residual gas and burned the employee.

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