# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220072830030` · 10/02/2007 · Consolidation Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Grinding
- **Injury source:** ABRAS STONE,WHEEL GRINDER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 29 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Consolidation Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4200079](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4200079)
## Narrative

Employee was grinding slag off of a piece of metal that he had cut when the 9"" grinder he was using caught on the slag. The grinding wheel cut his right forearm that required stitches. Employee was wearing leather welding gloves that the wheel hit before contacting his forearm. He was grinding on the bottom of the sheet metal with the grinder being held upside down.

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