# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220073550030` · 12/14/2007 · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Set or remove brattice
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SCRATCH,ABRASION,SUPERFCL
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.56 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
- **Mine:** [1202295](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1202295)
## Narrative

Employee stated that he was getting ready to make a cut in the face of # 0 and as he let the curtain down some dust from the curtain went into his eye. He washed his eye out with 2 bottles of eye wash. He woke up the next morning and his eye was still bothering him, so he went to the eye doctor and had a small piece of metal removed from his eye.

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