# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Manassas Polymers
> OSHA SIR `20191011122` · 10/24/2019 · CALHOUN, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Plastics, resins, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Manassas Polymers
- **Location:** 161 Executuive Dr. Calhoun: Warehouse Area, CALHOUN, GEORGIA, 30701
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working as the lead operator of an extrusion line and was monitoring the operation of the plastics extruder. The employee was standing next to the vent of an extruder machine when hot plastic overflowed from the extrusion line s vacuum vent. The employee sustained severe burns to his arms and forehead.

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