# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220022520009` · 08/23/2002 · Hydraulic Press Brick Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** STEAM
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 1.36 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Schwarz Partners II LP
- **Operator:** Hydraulic Press Brick Company
- **Mine:** [1200254](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1200254)
## Narrative

EE WAS DRIVING BOBCAT REMOVING HOT DUST UNDER #4KILN. DROVE THRU SERIES OF WATER PUDDLES CAUSING STEAM TO ERUPT. HYDRAULIC LINE BROKE ON BOBCAT STRANDING IT IN PUDDLE. EE JUMPED FROM BOBCAT, HITTING HEAD AND GETTING BURNS ON LEGS.

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