# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070890004` · 03/26/2007 · Patriot Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID)
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** LOOSE DIRT AND MUD
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 26 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** International Coal Group Inc (ICG)
- **Operator:** Patriot Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4607555](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4607555)
## Narrative

Employee was checking the oil on his Cat 980-F loader at the end of the work day.  When he closed the access door a piece of dirt flew up and lodged underneath the eye lid.  He worked the next day and went to hospital ER after work and had the foreign object removed.  No lost time.

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