# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220070720017` · 03/09/2007 · River Products Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Grinding
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 5
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Thomas R  Scott
- **Operator:** River Products Company Inc
- **Mine:** [1302251](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1302251)
## Narrative

While performing maintenance work on a Euclid R-50, prior to Quarry startup,  Company ID #H-09, the employee was using a grinder to prep metal for welding of a crack in the body of the above mentioned Euclid R-50, when a metal flake entered his left eye (cornea).

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