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January 31, 2006 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

While trying to drain a lean line in the Central Tank farm one of the isolation valves was leaking by. When one valve was slightly opened it caused electrolyte to pressure up in the drain line,(the drain line was a plastic hose), and in turn the hose begain a whipping motion spraying the employee in the eye.

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