# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220092660025` · 09/18/2009 · United States Gypsum Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Outside foreman, Leadman
- **Activity:** Supervise
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 19.33 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** USG Corporation
- **Operator:** United States Gypsum Company
- **Mine:** [3400266](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3400266)
## Narrative

An employee was using a hammer to free a loader bucket tooth that was stuck.  Pieces of metal broke off the tooth when struck by the hammer and struck nearby employees.  The employee using the hammer had a 3/16 inch metal shard lodge in his upper left arm, and a nearby observing employee had a 3/8 inch metal shard lodge in his right hand.

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