# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220072320025` · 08/16/2007 · Progress Coal 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** ELBOW
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.46 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Massey Energy Company
- **Operator:** Progress Coal 
- **Mine:** [4608645](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608645)
## Narrative

The employee was working with the dump ropes on a dragline.  He was working on the rigging sheaves while trying to thread the dump ropes through the sheave.  He completed what he was doing and noticed he had a puncture wound on his right elbow.  He was sent to a clinic where they cleaned the wound, removed a sliver of steel and closed the wound with 1 stitch.

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