Worker ballooned after compressed air accident
August 25th 2011

An electrician almost died when his body was ‘inflated’ by a compressed air hose which went up his backside at work, reports the Daily Mail.

Gareth Durrant, 26, said he felt like he had been ‘blown up’ as the air- carrying 300lbs per square inch entered his body in a freak factory accident.

Mr Durrant was working at Willerby Holiday Homes in Hull – a manufacturer of static caravans – when the incident occurred in July last year.

Pressurised air lines hang from the ceiling and are used to connect to power tools on the production line.

He was wearing shorts and somehow one of these lines went into his bottom, ripping his clothing and sending air rushing inside his body.

Two colleagues were working next to him at the time and it is not known how the air hose came to be attached to him.

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