# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220082390025` · 08/19/2008 · C & M Crushing & Recycling
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Coal/ore shovel operator,  Shoveler,  Power shoveler
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SCRATCH,ABRASION,SUPERFCL
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 4
- **Mine experience:** 10 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Conrad A  Sproul
- **Operator:** C & M Crushing & Recycling
- **Mine:** [3503583](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3503583)
## Narrative

Employee was moving boulders with a track hoe with a thumb, the boulder slipped out of the thumb and smashed into another boulder causing a small chip of rock to fly off and hit the employee in the face.

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