# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Shawnee Tubing Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018088985` · 8/30/2018 · SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
- **Secondary source:** Water
## Employer
- **Name:** Shawnee Tubing Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 41600 Wolverine Road, SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, 74804
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the casting machine. A malfunction allowed molten copper to be poured into water creating an explosion. The employee sustained burns to the face, neck, and shoulder and an eye injury.

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