# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at SynCot Plastics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077095` · 7/14/2018 · CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** SynCot Plastics, Inc.
- **Location:** 707 South Erwin St., CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30120
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were clearing a jam on an extruder machine when the hot plastic ejected from the mold and burned one of them.

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