# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220100260024` · 01/20/2010 · Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- **Nature of injury:** DUST IN EYES
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.58 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Lhoist Group
- **Operator:** Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC
- **Mine:** [0100003](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0100003)
## Narrative

Worker was either breaking castable or welding on elevator buckets when something got in his eye. Employee did not know that something was in eye until he awoke to find his right eye matted shut and puffy. Worker was taken to eye doctor and given a prescription for eye.

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