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Instrument Tubing Failure

Operations was commissioning a high pressure gas well (approx 3000 psi).  An operator placed his wrench on the fitting nut, the tubing released from the nut and the operator was blasted in the face with the full force of the gas pressure. The gas caused a 4 ½” tear in his esophagus, deflated one lung and partly deflated the other.