# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220081540004` · 05/29/2008 · Banner Blue Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** United  Company
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4406685](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406685)
## Narrative

Employee was trying to get a piece of stuck drill steel out of the top, when the drill pot chuck broke and the drill steel hit him in the mouth, cutting his upper lip that took two sutures to close.

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