# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220082670019` · 09/12/2008 · Dickenson-Russell Coal Co LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Bull gang, Faceman, Parts runner, Roustabout, Roof trimmer/scaler
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FACE,NEC
- **Days lost:** 16
- **Mine experience:** 3.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Dickenson-Russell Coal Co LLC
- **Mine:** [4406864](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406864)
## Narrative

Employee was in process of connecting finisher and pusher steels when he inadvertently hit the rotation causing the pusher to fly out of the chuck. It hit him below his left eye resulting in a cut which got infected due to the type of sutures used.

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