# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220090200018` · 01/10/2009 · Atlantic Carbon Group, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Grinding
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 257
- **Mine experience:** 0.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Atlantic Carbon Group PLC
- **Operator:** Atlantic Carbon Group, Inc.
- **Mine:** [3608745](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3608745)
## Narrative

While grinding metal using a handheld electric grinder the employee got a fragment of metal in his eye.  He originally thought it may have been just dirt until the eye continued to bother him for a few days.  He went to the ER on 1/12/09 and it was found to be a metal fragment.

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