# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Joseph McCormick Construction Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087945` · 8/21/2020 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Road grading and surfacing machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
## Employer
- **Name:** Joseph McCormick Construction Co., Inc.
- **Location:** Route 20 & Hannon Road, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16510
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been conducting flagging operations at an intersection where other employees were applying hot tar to the road. The employee went to get onto the hot tar buggy to ride to the next intersection but fell off the buggy and landed in hot tar that had puddled on the road. The employee sustained burns to his left arm and right hand. He also sustained a bruised left leg.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*