# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220072690023` · 09/21/2007 · Wolf Run Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Handling timber
- **Injury source:** POST,CAPS,HEADERS,TIMBER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NOSE/NASAL PASSAGES/SINUS/SMELL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.54 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** International Coal Group Inc (ICG)
- **Operator:** Wolf Run Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [4609115](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609115)
## Narrative

Employee was helping unload supplies from a scoop onto a roof bolter.  When he placed the oversized plates across the roof bolter they came in contact with long boards already laying on the bolter and one of the boards came in an upward direction and struck the employee on the nose.  The wound was closed at the hospital using an adhesive.

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