# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at JV Industrial Companies, Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2018076691` · 7/4/2018 · CONVENT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Hydrogen
## Employer
- **Name:** JV Industrial Companies, Ltd.
- **Location:** Shell Convent Refinery, CONVENT, LOUISIANA, 70723
- **NAICS:** 325120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were removing a valve from a 4-inch hydrogen line in a sulfur unit. One employee was loosening the bottom bolts of the flange. As the flange was opened, hydrogen escaped and caused a flash fire that burned the two employees. The employees suffered second degree burns on the ears, right wrist, right arm, back of the neck, and the back. One employee was hospitalized.

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