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EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
220021640043 · 06/06/2002 · Virginia Vermiculite LLC
Details
- Degree of injury
- DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- Classification
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- Accident type
- Struck by... NEC
- Occupation
- Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- Activity
- Handling supplies or material
- Injury source
- STEAM
- Nature of injury
- BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- Body part
- MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- Days lost
- 24
- Mine experience
- 24.11 years
Operator
- Controller (parent)
- Robert Sansom
- Operator
- Virginia Vermiculite LLC
- Mine
- 4405101
Narrative
TRYING TO UNPLUG PUMP - APPARENTLY HEAT & PRESSURE HAD BUILT UP - WHEN DISCONNECT FOR UNPLUGGING, IT BLEW.
Source
- Authoritative
- MSHA Open Government Data
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown