# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220023220123` · 11/05/2002 · Performance Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Beltman, Conveyor man,  Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** KNIFE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.84 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Massey Energy Company
- **Operator:** Performance Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4608539](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608539)
## Narrative

INJURED WAS PREPARING TO MAKE A VULCANIZED SPLICE IN A CONVEYOR BELT IN AN AREA THAT WAS WET AND MUDDY. WHEN ATTEMPTING TO CUT THE BELTING HE POSITIONED HIMSELF IN AN AWKWARD POSITION THAT PUT HIS LEG IN A DIRECT PATH OF THE UTILITY KNIFE HE WAS USING. THE KNIFE CAME OFF OF THE BELT AND STRUCKHIM IN THE LEG WHEN PULLING THE KNIFE TOWARD HIS BODY.

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