Accident Report Detail

Accident: 127797.015 - Employee Incurs Multiple Injuries In Fall When Struck By Vap

**Accident: 127797.015 -- Report ID: 0626000 -- Event Date: 07/10/2020**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1483585.015	07/14/2020		Grammer Logistics, Inc.

At 4:00 p.m. on July 10, 2020, an employee was offloading Isobutane from a press urized tank trailer. The employee was walking to the liquid line of tank to cap it. When the trailer tank released pressurized vapors striking the employee in t he chest. The employee was thrown five feet over an unguarded retaining wall and fell four feet onto metal pipes. The employee was hospitalized to treat a lacer ation to his head requiring 14 staples and a fracture of the tibia and fibula of the right leg requiring surgery.

Keywords: compressed gas, fall, fracture, head, laceration, leg, off loading, struck by, tank truck, unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1483585.015	44	M	Hospitalized injury		Truck drivers, heavy

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