# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220030550097` · 02/20/2003 · Monterey Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** —
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** —
- **Nature of injury:** —
- **Body part:** —
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Exxon Mobil Corp
- **Operator:** Monterey Coal Company
- **Mine:** [1100726](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1100726)
## Narrative

EE WAS CLEANING BELT LINE AND WAS NEAR A FIRE VALVE WHEN THE PLASTIC FIRE NIPPLE FLEW OUT. THE FORCE OF THE WATER PUSHED HIM TO THE GROUND AND HIS RIGHT ELBOW WAS CUT. FOUR SUTURES WERE REQUIR ED TO CLOSE LACERATION.

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