# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220071240031` · 04/30/2007 · Evans Quarries Incorporated
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Larry G  Evans
- **Operator:** Evans Quarries Incorporated
- **Mine:** [1200030](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1200030)
## Narrative

Employee was splitting up a cut. He had set wedges & broken the block. To relieve the pressure so he could pull the wedges, he was driving two wedges plus slips into a drill hole. One wedge bounced out striking him above the right eye. He was sent to walk-in clinic where he received three sutures & then returned to work.

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