# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220080110056` · 01/05/2008 · GTM Energy Partners, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Idle
- **Injury source:** LIQUIDS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 18
- **Mine experience:** 0.25 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Jem-Coal LLC; Whitecap Alabama Growth Fund I LLC
- **Operator:** GTM Energy Partners, LLC
- **Mine:** [0102933](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0102933)
## Narrative

A can of soup was put on the manifold of a D8 dozer to heat. The soup got too hot; when the employee started opening the soup it exploded, burning his face and neck.

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