Each year in the United States, approximately 1.1 million Americans seek medical attention for burn injuries. About 50,000 of these people are
hospitalized and roughly 4,500 of them succumb to their injuries. Like many other traumatic injuries, burn injuries are preventable and often caused by carelessness.

If you’ve been harmed by someone else’s negligence (the legal term for carelessness), Woron and Dhillon, LLC may be able to help.

Contact us at (803) 702-8401 to put 30 years of combined legal experience on your side.

Types and Degrees of Burns

When you make contact with heat, radiation, chemicals, or electrical currents, you can sustain a burn injury. The
different types of burn injuries are as follows:

• Thermal burns come from heat sources like hot metals, scalding liquids, steam, and flames.
• Radiation burns are a result of prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light (like the sun) or other sources of radiation (like an X-ray).
• Chemical burns come from strong acids, alkalies, detergents, or solvents that come into contact with the skin or eyes.
• Electrical burns are a result of electrical current – alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC).

Burns are also classified by degree:

• First-degree burns: damage of only the outer layer of skin
• Second-degree burns: damage of the outer layer and the layer underneath
• Third-degree burns: damage of destruction of the deepest layer of skin and the tissues underneath. Some medical providers call these burns superficial, partial thickness, and full thickness burns
• Fourth degree burns: extends into fat,
• Fifth degree burns: extends into muscle, and sixth degree burns to bone.”

Although most first-degree burns heal on their own, second- and third-degree burns and burns that cover a large portion of the body typically require medical attention.

Burns are also incredibly painful, with the exception of third-degree burns which destroy the nerve endings. First-degree burns are red, painful, and dry; second-degree burns are red, blistered, swollen, and painful; and third-degree
burns appear with or charred.

If you have suffered any significant burn injury, you may be entitled to compensation. Woron and Dhillon, LLC can help you file a personal injury lawsuit
to recover the damages you are owed.

Where Do Burn Injuries Take Place?

Per the World Health Organization (WHO), burns occur mainly in the home and workplace. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires, and flammable
liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns in the United States.

Burns can take place during fiery car accidents, in house fires caused by defective products, and even in tanning beds. Some workplaces, like restaurants, also carry a high risk of burn
injuries – especially when employers do not take the appropriate safety measures.

When someone else’s negligence is responsible for your wound, our Columbia burn injury attorneys can help.