# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220041690012` · 06/11/2004 · QAP
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** FLAME,FIRE,SMOKE,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** FACE,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Colas S A
- **Operator:** QAP
- **Mine:** [5001643](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/5001643)
## Narrative

Employee inside impactor cutting bolts with an acetylene/oxygen torch.  Employee lit and used torch without event when suddently the torch flared.  Employee either: 1. pinched the gas lines and then un-pinched the lines which resulted in a gas surge, or 2. accidently opened the acetylene valve on the torch.  Employee burned - 2nd degree - on left side of his face.

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