# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088909` · 8/28/2018 · KINTNERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Welding, cutting, and blow torches
- **Secondary source:** Asphalt and concrete paving machines, pavers
## Employer
- **Name:** Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc.
- **Location:** Paving job, Bethlehem Road, KINTNERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18930
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training another employee on how to light the back part of a paver and set his butane torch down on the paver. When the paver was later started, its doors closed on the torch, causing it to bend, be punctured, and blow up, at which point the employee jumped from the paver. He suffered burns to both arms, his nose, and forehead, as well as a possible broken left heel.

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