# Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia at Green's Blue Flame Gas
> OSHA SIR `2024109482` · 10/11/2024 · HUMBLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Tanker trucks
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Green's Blue Flame Gas
- **Location:** 317 Fischer Rd., HUMBLE, TEXAS, 77338
- **NAICS:** 424720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A truck driver was delivering propane. While he was climbing down from the truck cabin, he fell backward and landed on the concrete ground. The employee's vertebra was pushed into his spine, causing paralysis from the shoulder down.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*