# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220080940001` · 03/29/2008 · Sterling Mining Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** W Thomas  Mackall
- **Operator:** Sterling Mining Corporation
- **Mine:** [3304495](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3304495)
## Narrative

Miner was throwing belt structure into a scoop bucket, when the bottom stand of the structure he threw bounced off the bucket of the scoop and hit him in the left eye, causing swelling around the eye socket and redness in the eyeball.

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