# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220021090025` · 04/06/2002 · U S Gypsum Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Scoop car/Scooptram operator, Load/Haul/Dump (LHD) operator, Teletram operator
- **Activity:** Escaping a hazard
- **Injury source:** MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** USG Corporation
- **Operator:** U S Gypsum Company
- **Mine:** [1200427](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1200427)
## Narrative

EE WAS ON LIFT PLATFORM OF #17 ANFO LOADER. AS OPERATOR ENGAGED HYDRAULIC SYSTEM TO RAISE TABLE,EE TUMBLED BACKWARDS FALLING ON HIS BACK. A HYDRAULIC HOSE BLEW @ SAME TIME EE FELL, SPRAYING HI M W/OIL. EE STATED HE WAS NOT INJURED BY FALL, BUT BY THE SCRAMBLING TRYING TO GET OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE LIFTING PLATFORM, FOR FEAR PLATFORM WOULD COME DOWN.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*