# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220190710009` · 03/04/2019 · Giant Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.88 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Elementia Materiales
- **Operator:** Giant Cement Company
- **Mine:** [3800007](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3800007)
## Narrative

During jackhammer operations using pneumatic pressure, a threaded nipple separated from the threaded end of a Chicago fitting allowing the hose to escape the whip check and strike an employee in the forehead above the right eyebrow causing a laceration that required 6 stitches.

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