# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220071030055` · 03/07/2007 · Mountainside Coal Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** ALL OTHER CASES (INCL 1ST AID)
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PLANTS,TREES,VEGETATION
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NOSE/NASAL PASSAGES/SINUS/SMELL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Dan  Chambers
- **Operator:** Mountainside Coal Company Inc
- **Mine:** [4003122](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4003122)
## Narrative

Employee was walking up the slope and dropped his water bottle. As he bent over to pick the water bottle up, a stick from the trees he was carrying went up his nose, puncturing the skin inside his nose causing it to bleed.

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