# Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns at Duncan Construction Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2021065327` · 6/30/2021 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Trip over an object without fall
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Tarps, plastic or fabric sheeting
## Employer
- **Name:** Duncan Construction Corp.
- **Location:** 1732 Brentwood Drive, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33756
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying a bucket of hot roofing tar. He was walking to the back of the building when the wind blew a tarp into his path and onto his feet. The employee stumbled and hot tar fell out of the bucket, landing on the employee's arms, from the elbows to the hands. The employee sustained third and fourth degree burns requiring surgery.

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