# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220180030017` · 12/29/2017 · Lehigh Cement Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** NOXIOUS MINE GASES,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Heidelberg Materials AG
- **Operator:** Lehigh Cement Company LLC
- **Mine:** [0100043](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0100043)
## Narrative

Employee was in the process of building a Cardox tube for a preheater plug.  Employee was filling the tube with CO2 and noticed it leaking. Employee put the tube in the vice to change the head. Employee did not bleed the pressure from the tube as trained to do.  When the head came off, the CO2 violently released.  

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