Contact with cold objects or substances · Other or multiple types of burns degree unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Amerigas Propane, Limited Partnership, 300 N Mitchell Road, NORTH AURORA, ILLINOIS 60542
on — Other or multiple types of burns degree unspecified, affecting the Trunk and other upper extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was filling a motor fuel cylinder from a bobtail. When he opened the handle on the fill nozzle it popped off the filler valve and pushed him back into a rack where he struck his head on a cylinder cage. He sustained a laceration to the back left side of his head. While working to wrestle the hose to the ground, he sustained burns from liquid propane on the right side of his chest and right arm, and sustained minor burns on the left side.
Hospitalized Trunk and other upper extremities Propane
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