# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at FIELDBROOK FOODS CORP.
> OSHA SIR `2020043382` · 4/13/2020 · DUNKIRK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Water
- **Secondary source:** Shoes, boots, slippers, sandals
## Employer
- **Name:** FIELDBROOK FOODS CORP.
- **Location:** 1 ICE CREAM DRIVE, DUNKIRK, NEW YORK, 14048
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up piping connections. He removed a pipe from a tank that was filled with hot water. When he raised the pipe up, it filled his boot with hot water. The water burned his lower leg and foot.

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