'This is you dying': Young reveller details horrific Falls Festival crush

A young woman who was crushed among dozens of revellers at the Falls Festival has shared a photo of her face with shockingly blackened and bloodshot eyes.

The 22-year-old woman, identified only as "Mandy", told Triple J's Hack program that she is facing the rest of the summer and beyond recovering, off work and on crutches.

"I just remember going, 'this is it, this is death. This is you dying.' And then I blacked out," she told the news program about the crush.

Mandy was among the mass human crush of bodies at the annual music festival held at the Victorian beachside town of Lorne on December 30 last year.

The stampede occurred as the crowd was moving from the DMA's set to London Grammar at a nearby stage, more than 80 were injured with 19 hospitalised.

"I fell over the girls who had fallen down, and I kind of flipped and went on my back and started getting dragged along the ground," Mandy said.

The young reveller said she was at the bottom of the pile when a mass of limbs and bodies began to smother her.

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"I was screaming until I couldn't anymore because the air was crushed out of my lungs," she said from Geelong Hospital where she is nursing a broken sacrum, a bone in the pelvis.

Having escaped what would have been a horrific death, Mandy was taken to hospital but had no way of contacting her parents desperate for news of their daughter's wellbeing.

Festival organisers told Mandy they had contacted her family, "but they didn't", she said.

While Mandy looks ahead to a long recovery she said she was frustrated and feeling "hopeless and useless" as she cannot work her retail job and has to rely on her mother for help.

With nearly two weeks since the human stampede, Mandy is still waiting for compensation from festival organisers.

"There's talk of potential ticket refunds or paying medical bills, but there hasn't been any promises yet," Maddy said, albeit sympathetic about the massive task the organisers have to deal with.

A class-action lawsuit has been launched against the festival but Mandy is uncertain about getting on board because she is unclear about whom to blame.

"I don't want to blame one thing, one person. Because then you could be blaming the people that pushed me, or the DMA's for being so popular," she said.

WorkSafe Victoria is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crush. The government body told Hack most investigations are completed within six months.

The Falls Festival apologised and released its emergency strategy in a statement following the incident.

"With over 20 years of experience running festivals behind us, we are completely devastated by the crowd crush that occurred with patrons exiting The Grand Theatre, and we are beyond shattered that a number of our festival patrons were injured and impacted by this event," the statement said.