Man stuck by lighting filling a propane tank in a RV Park.

JimK-NY wrote:
Filling the propane tank had no bearing on this. Plenty of people get hit by lightening while taking shelter under a tree. People had also died from being hit by chards of wood from a tree hit by lightening. It is not safe to take shelter under a tree during a lightening storm.

that may or may not be true. That was a colerital shock. The question is where did it come from and dissipate to? I don't know anything about those commercial LP hoses but it's entirely possible the path was through a steel lined hose, through him, and to ground. Igniting the tank, no, but could have had a nice venting flare