# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at Border Trading Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201010063` · 10/22/2020 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Welding, cutting, and blow torches
## Employer
- **Name:** Border Trading Inc.
- **Location:** 1011 Hawken Blvd., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79915
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a torch to dismantle a refrigerator. As the torch cut a copper tube the torch burst into flames and the employee sustained burns to the head, face, and neck.

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