# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220093060002` · 10/26/2009 · Highway Materials LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Flash burns (welding)
- **Occupation:** Assayer, Geologist, Metallurgist, Engineer, Engineer management
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MACHINE,NEC-WELDR,OFC MAC
- **Nature of injury:** ELECT.ARC BURN-NOT CONTAC
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 0.81 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peter DePaul Irrevocable Combined Trust
- **Operator:** Highway Materials LLC
- **Mine:** [3600052](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3600052)
## Narrative

Employee was helping to tack on steel bars to a steel plate. Employee was not wearing adequate eye protection and suffered a flash burn to the eyes.

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