# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Life Enriching Advancing People
> OSHA SIR `2019099666` · 9/16/2019 · FARMINGTON, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Whole body
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Commercial or retail building, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Propane
## Employer
- **Name:** Life Enriching Advancing People
- **Location:** 313 Framington Falls Road, FARMINGTON, MAINE, 04938
- **NAICS:** 813319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was showing fire department first responders the entrance to a building when the building exploded. The propane explosion injured the employee's head and leg, also causing second- and third-degree burns on 85% of the employee's body. The employee was hospitalized.

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