# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220060470071` · 02/06/2006 · Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Examiner, Fire boss, Pre-shift examiner, Mine examiner
- **Activity:** Hang or reposition tubing
- **Injury source:** WATER
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FACE,NEC
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company
- **Mine:** [3607416](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3607416)
## Narrative

Employee was lowering a discharge line to repair a bad coupler. While lowering line the coupler blew apart, causing water and air under pressure to strike him in the face and both eyes, and threw him back against the coal rib. Employee sustained a fracture to the bottom orbit of the left eye.

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