# Second degree heat (thermal) burns at DAK Americas Mississippi, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019066424` · 6/26/2019 · BAY SAINT LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Second degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** DAK Americas Mississippi, Inc.
- **Location:** 3303 Pot & Harbor Dr., BAY SAINT LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI, 39520
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting in the removal of a monomer pump bowl when he was sprayed with hot monomer (a slurry of PET plastic) and sustained a second degree burn to the lower face.

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