# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220140140056` · 06/23/2013 · Eastern Associated Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** NEC
- **Occupation:** Timberman
- **Activity:** Idle
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** HEARING LOSS OR IMPAIRMNT
- **Body part:** EAR(S) INTERNAL & HEARING
- **Days lost:** 112
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Eastern Associated Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [4601456](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601456)
## Narrative

Employee was sitting in the section dinner hole when he was exposed to noise as a result of a fellow employee placing the heating element of a double back lunch into a pop bottle causing the bottle to rupture.

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