# Frostbite at Ferrellgas, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2025043470` · 4/14/2025 · EOLA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Frostbite
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact tissue
- **Source:** Propane
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ferrellgas, L.P.
- **Location:** 6 South, EOLA, ILLINOIS, 60519
- **NAICS:** 454310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pumping liquid propane from a propane delivery truck to a storage tank. After the transfer was completed, the employee closed the valves and disconnected the transfer hose. During the transfer, the liquid propane auto-refrigerated the riser pipe of the storage tank and that delayed the vaporization of the propane. Upon reaching a higher temperature, liquified propane began rapidly expanding. Liquid propane then discharged from the pipe and contacted the employee, causing cold burns. The employee was hospitalized for second-degree burns to their torso and arms.

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