# EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
> MSHA accident `220222350008` · 08/15/2022 · Meyer Material CO, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** COAL & PETROL PRODUCT,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Holcim Ltd
- **Operator:** Meyer Material CO, LLC
- **Mine:** [2002371](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2002371)
## Narrative

Employees were changing a hydraulic hose on a Loader and had locked out accordingly.  One employee was loosening the final bolts that secure the hose, hydraulic fluid sprayed into the employees face and up EE's nose.  After the employee flushed their eyes, they blew their nose this created pressure in their eye, which subsequently swelled up.  

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