# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070960022` · 04/03/2007 · Specialty Sand Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** LOOSE DIRT AND MUD
- **Nature of injury:** SCRATCH,ABRASION,SUPERFCL
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** W A  Keckley
- **Operator:** Specialty Sand Company
- **Mine:** [4101143](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4101143)
## Narrative

EE feels the particulate may have entered his eye when he was shoveling slag the previous night.

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