# Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified at NAES Power Contractors
> OSHA SIR `20201110552` · 11/6/2020 · NEW FLORENCE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten or hot metals, slag
## Employer
- **Name:** NAES Power Contractors
- **Location:** 595 Plant Road, NEW FLORENCE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15944
- **NAICS:** 221119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were vacuuming the top of a seal pot for a boiler, using a 6-inch steel flex hose. An eruption of molten ash blew back onto the employees and burned the employees on the face and neck. Both employee were hospitalized.

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