in september of 2003 i was on the job using a high volume vacuum in a confined space environment. i was vacuuming up lime mixed with water. i was wearing all protective clothing issued by my company. after a few hours my legs and back started to warm up. before i knew it i was in unbearable pain. i jumped out of the man hole and began stripping my clothes off and all my legs was beat red and some parts was bleeding. well my supervisor said that i was ok and i didnt need to see a doctor, so i washed off with some water and took the pain and found some dry clothes and was back working about 1 hour later the pain felt like it went away. about 3 hours later before i got off the pain come back i told my supervisor that i couldnt take it any more and that i needed to go to the hospital so we went together to a small hospital in a small town they really didnt know what to do they said it was second degree then the next morning i went to uc, a bigger hospital and they looked at me right away and told me that i had 3rd degree burns and i was off work for 2 weeks. my boss told me not to press the workers comp and that he would take care of me. but i was never paid so now i finally talked to a lawyer and he said that he would get me paid for the time off but he said that there really isnt nothing he can do about the scars. so now i have scars on both legs and i was doing a confined space job with no training and hazordous waste removal with no training i think that the company i worked for has violated some osha laws in that i was injured and i think that i should have some compensation for some scars that i will have for the rest of my life i dont know who else to talk to about this if anybody has some advise please let me know