# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220102770040` · 09/27/2010 · Legacy Resources LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Douglas M  Epling
- **Operator:** Legacy Resources LLC
- **Mine:** [4608870](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608870)
## Narrative

Employee was hitting a piece of steel in a rock truck bed with a sledge hammer, when a fragment of metal chipped off of the sledge hammer and lodged in his neck.

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