Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts · Electrical burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Suburban Propane, 611 Meadow Creek Lane, PERKASIE, PENNSYLVANIA 18944
on — Electrical burns, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
On 10/13/15 at approximately 10:00 AM a technician was performing maintenance on a customer's oil burner which is powered by 10,000 volts. The furnace was powered up again by mistake and resulted in the technician receiving an electric shock. The technician was admitted to the hospital with burn injuries.
An employee was attaching hooks to an upright storage tank when the tank moved, causing the employee to fall approximately 7 feet from the ladder to the concrete below. The employee suffered a fractured wrist and damaged heel.
An employee was installing a ground wire to a power transmission pole. The ground wire contacted an energized portion of a cut-out, causing an arc-flash. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns to their chest and arms.
An employee was connecting a utility transformer for underground service to a home. The employee's impact drill went across two connection bars with 240 volts of potential, creating an arc flash. The employee sustained burns to the face and eyes due to the arc flash and molten aluminum.
On December 15, 2023, at 9:15 AM, an employee was changing 60-amp fuses in a 480-volt panel when an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to both hands.
An employee was filling propane cylinders at a customer location when a flash fire occurred, resulting in burns to the face that required hospitalization.
An employee was pulling a delivery hose from a bobtail trailer and tripped over the hose. The employee pulled a muscle in his right calf, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was making a propane delivery at a residential customer location. As he walked to the customer's door, he slipped on ice and fell resulting in a right leg and ankle fracture.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.