# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220082550031` · 09/08/2008 · ASARCO LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Grupo Mexico S A B de C V
- **Operator:** ASARCO LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
- **Mine:** [0200134](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0200134)
## Narrative

Employee was moving a bottle of welding gas.  He was off loading it from the truck when he lost control of the cylinder and as the cylinder fell it opened the valve and the employee was blasted with gas from the bottle.

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