# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220081760042` · 06/12/2008 · Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Supervise
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 29.25 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
- **Mine:** [4609028](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609028)
## Narrative

Longwall foreman was conducting his examination of the face, when he was struck in the neck by a piece of steel that had splinted off of a cutter bit on the shear. The shear was operating in sandstone conditions and he was approx 20' from the shear at the time of the accident. Steel was removed, sutured to close the wound.

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