The American Burn Association verifies burn centers that meet rigorous standards for staffing, equipment, and outcomes. If you were treated at one of these facilities, your clinical records are among the most powerful evidence available in a burn injury lawsuit.
Texas has more ABA-verified burn centers than any other state except California. The state's extensive petrochemical, oil & gas, and construction industries make burn injuries a leading cause of severe workplace trauma.
One of the nation's oldest and most respected burn units. Serves the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor and has treated industrial burn victims for over 60 years. ABA-verified. Affiliated with the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Regional Referral CenterThe primary burn treatment center for North Texas and surrounding region. Level I Trauma designation. Treats thousands of patients annually from workplace incidents, house fires, and vehicle accidents.
Level I TraumaLocated in the world's largest medical complex. Specializes in complex burn reconstruction and serves Houston's industrial and petrochemical workforce along the Ship Channel and beyond.
Texas Medical CenterHome to the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center — one of the most advanced burn facilities in the world. Treats both military personnel and civilian patients with the most severe injuries.
Military & CivilianUniversity Medical Center's burn facility serves West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. Primary destination for oilfield, agricultural, and industrial burn injuries in the region.
West Texas RegionalCalifornia's vast industrial base — refineries, agriculture, warehousing, and technology manufacturing — and its wildfire risk make it one of the highest-volume burn states in the nation.
Major regional referral center serving Northern California and the Central Valley. Specializes in wildfire, agricultural, and industrial burn victims. ABA-verified.
Northern California RegionalServes the sprawling LA metro. Treats manufacturing, warehouse, and chemical burn victims from LA County's industrial districts. One of the busiest trauma centers in the nation.
Level I TraumaStanford Health Care's ABA-verified burn program serves the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Specializes in complex burns including chemical and electrical injuries from technology manufacturing.
Academic Medical CenterFlorida's construction boom, tourism industry, maritime operations, and chemical manufacturing create significant burn injury exposure across the state.
Level I Trauma Center. Primary burn facility for Tampa Bay metro and West Florida. Serves construction, maritime, and industrial burn victims from the Gulf Coast region.
Level I TraumaUniversity of Florida Health's Jacksonville campus. Serves Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Treats shipyard, port, and industrial burn injuries from the Jacksonville corridor.
Academic Burn CenterServes metro Atlanta and 50+ counties. Level I Trauma. Major urban center treating industrial, construction, and workplace burns.
Serves the Central Savannah River Area, Fort Eisenhower, and surrounding region including nuclear and chemical manufacturing corridors.
Serves Northeast Ohio. Legacy burn center for steel, manufacturing, and chemical workers across the Cuyahoga Valley industrial corridor.
Academic medical center. Serves Central Ohio. Treats construction, gas explosion, and automotive manufacturing burn victims.
Major Level I Trauma burn center serving Philadelphia metro and the Delaware Valley. Chemical and industrial burns from the legacy refinery corridor.
Serves Greater Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Treats steel/manufacturing legacy injuries and Marcellus Shale natural gas well explosion cases.
Serves Baton Rouge metro and the River Parish petrochemical corridor — one of the most concentrated chemical manufacturing regions in North America.
Academic medical center serving Northwest Louisiana and the East Texas border region. Haynesville Shale oil/gas explosion and manufacturing burn cases.
Serves West and Southwest Michigan. Treats automotive supplier, pharmaceutical, and chemical manufacturing burn victims from the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek corridor.
Academic medical center serving Southeast Michigan. Specializes in complex burns from automotive, EV battery manufacturing, and chemical facilities across the Detroit metro region.
Level I Trauma. Serves Charlotte metro and Western North Carolina. Construction, industrial, and manufacturing burn cases from the rapidly growing Charlotte region.
UNC Health academic burn center. Serves the Research Triangle and Eastern NC. Pharmaceutical/biotech lab burns, agricultural burns, and military burn cases from Fort Liberty.
Washington's aerospace manufacturing, timber industry, maritime operations, and the Hanford nuclear site create significant burn exposure across the state.
UW Medicine's Level I Trauma Center. The Pacific Northwest's premier burn facility, serving Boeing aerospace workers, timber industry injuries, maritime burns from Puget Sound operations, and wildfire victims.
Level I Trauma / Pacific Northwest RegionalIllinois's steel corridor, petrochemical plants along I-80, and food processing industry make it a high-volume state for serious workplace burn injuries.
Academic Level I Trauma Center serving Chicago metro and the I-80 industrial corridor. Treats steel manufacturing, chemical plant, and construction burn victims from one of the nation's most industrially dense regions.
Academic Medical Center / Level I TraumaTennessee has a 1-year statute of limitations — the shortest in the nation. If you or a family member was burned in Tennessee, time is critical.
Serves Middle Tennessee and surrounding region. Treats automotive manufacturing (GM, Volkswagen), TVA power facility, and chemical plant burn victims.
Academic Medical Center"The Med" — Memphis's Level I Trauma Center serving West Tennessee and the Mississippi River corridor. Logistics, agriculture, and chemical burn cases from the Mid-South region.
Level I TraumaArizona's only ABA-verified burn center. Serves the Phoenix metro and statewide. Treats construction, mining, semiconductor manufacturing, and wildfire-related burns.
Level I Trauma Center. Rocky Mountain regional burn facility serving oil and gas workers from the DJ Basin, mining injury victims, and wildfire-related burns across Colorado.
New York's unique Scaffold Law (Labor Law § 240) imposes absolute liability on property owners and contractors for construction burns. Con Edison utility burns and Port of NY/NJ maritime injuries create additional high-value burn claims.
Premier academic burn center serving the New York metro area. Treats construction, utility, maritime, and industrial burn victims in one of the most legally complex burn injury jurisdictions in the country.
Academic Medical Center / Level I TraumaLevel I Trauma. Serves Indiana and surrounding region. Treats steel, automotive, and pharmaceutical manufacturing burns from one of the Midwest's most industrially dense states.
Washington University academic medical center. Serves Missouri and the bi-state region. Treats automotive, chemical, and agricultural burn victims. Missouri's 5-year SOL is among the most favorable in the nation.
Nevada's only ABA-verified burn center. Treats construction, mining, hospitality/kitchen, and lithium battery manufacturing burns from the Las Vegas metro and statewide.
Oregon's only ABA-verified burn center. Serves timber and paper mill workers, Port of Portland maritime burns, Intel semiconductor manufacturing, and agricultural injuries across the Pacific Northwest.
University of Oklahoma academic burn center. Oklahoma is a top-5 oil and gas producing state — oilfield explosions, refinery fires, and pipeline burns are the leading source of catastrophic burn cases.
Virginia Commonwealth University academic burn center. Serves shipbuilding burn victims from Newport News and Norfolk Naval Shipyard — LHWCA and Jones Act claims bypass Virginia's contributory negligence rule.
University of Wisconsin academic burn center. Serves paper and pulp mill workers, dairy processing, and manufacturing burn victims across Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.
Johns Hopkins Bayview academic burn center. Serves maritime burns from the Port of Baltimore, federal contractor injuries, and Sparrows Point industrial legacy cases. Federal maritime claims bypass Maryland's strict contributory negligence rule.
UCSF / Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Serves the Bay Area and wildfire smoke inhalation victims. Treats tech manufacturing, maritime, and chemical burns from Northern California.
Academic Medical CenterOrange County Global Medical Center (Anaheim). ABA-verified regional burn center serving Southern California's aerospace, manufacturing, and construction industries.
Regional Burn CenterRyder Trauma Center / Jackson Memorial. Level I Trauma. Serves South Florida maritime, construction, and hospitality burn victims. Major port operations and cruise industry burns.
Level I TraumaUniversity of Cincinnati academic burn center. Serves Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana. Chemical, automotive supplier, and manufacturing burn cases.
DMC Level I Trauma Center serving Detroit metro. Treats automotive assembly, EV battery plant, and welding/stamping burn victims from one of the most industrially concentrated metro areas in the United States.
The American Burn Association's verification process is the gold standard for burn care quality. When you are treated at an ABA-verified center, it signals to insurance companies, defense attorneys, and juries that your injuries were serious enough to require specialized, expert-level care.
ABA-verified centers maintain detailed clinical records including burn depth assessments, total body surface area (TBSA) calculations, daily wound care logs, surgical reports, and long-term prognosis documentation. These records become the evidentiary foundation of your lawsuit.
Attorneys who regularly handle burn cases know how to obtain, interpret, and leverage burn center records. They also know how to work with ABA-affiliated burn surgeons who can serve as expert witnesses — translating clinical findings into the language of damages that juries understand.
If you were transferred from a community hospital to an ABA-verified burn center, that transfer itself is significant evidence. It documents that your injuries exceeded what a standard hospital could treat — a fact that directly bears on the severity calculation in your claim.