# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Keymark Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019033243` · 3/28/2019 · FONDA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Sole(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** Keymark Corporation
- **Location:** 1188 Cayadutta Street, FONDA, NEW YORK, 12068
- **NAICS:** 331316
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had to remove a plug from one furnace to allow molten aluminum to move along a trough to another furnace.  When he removed the plug, the molten aluminum splashed out of the trough and went on his pant leg and into his open boot, traveling into the bottom of his shoe and burning the bottom of his foot. Proper PPE was not worn at the time of the incident.

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