Incident date: 2025-07-15
NAICS industry code: 454310

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.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with cold objects or substances
code_source: title: Propane
code_nature: title: Other or multiple types of burns  degree unspecified
code_body: title: Trunk and other upper extremities
severity: moderate