OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221428659
ALLIED PROPANE SERVICE INC.
OAKLAND, CA·
Event description
Employee fractures ribs in fall from elevation
Investigation abstract
At 4:45 p.m. on December 22, 2021, an employee, a delivery driver, arrived at a then repeated this process to load two out of three of the full tanks to the storage area. As the employee was rolling the third LPG cylinder, he switched his footing on the blocks lining the retaining wall and slipped and fell onto the plank and then onto the ground. The customer heard the noise and came outside and the employee asked him to call for emergency medical services. EMS arrived and transported the employee to a local medical Center, where x-rays discovered fractures of the right 5th, 6th, 7th ribs, a xiphoid fracture, and had a small right pneumothorax. The employee was admitted for management of the pneumothorax and pain. customer's residence to deliver three liquid propane gas (LPG) compressed gas cylinders that each weighed 71 pounds. The employee backed his truck into the property parallel to a retaining wall where the cylinder storage area was on the side of the house. The employee lowered the lift gate of the truck to approximately 32 inches and used a wooden plank on the customer's site, approximately 9 inches wide, to bridge across from the gate to the storage area. The employee then loaded the three empty cylinders from the site onto the truck using the wooden plank to roll the cylinders on by their foot ring. The employee
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 65 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 805
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