# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220083290025` · 11/13/2008 · Excalibar Minerals LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** EAR(S) EXTERNAL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Newpark Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Excalibar Minerals LLC
- **Mine:** [4104449](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104449)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning out a tank and while bent over the clamp from an air hose broke and the hose fell hitting him on his right ear causing his hard hat to come off and the plug in his right ear to fall out.

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