# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220162220010` · 08/05/2016 · New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Clerk, Timekeeper, Office worker, Director of sales
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 181
- **Mine experience:** 53 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc
- **Operator:** New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc.
- **Mine:** [3600195](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3600195)
## Narrative

A track hoe slack adjuster coil spring was being cut for scrap, during the process, a second employee (victim) was walking in the vicinity of the work.  The center pin (inner portion of the adjuster) broke during the heating of the coil spring (outer portion) of the adjuster and struck the victim in the lower left leg while walking past, fracturing leg above the ankle.

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