# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220112130051` · 07/19/2011 · Joseph Kuperavage Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** LOOSE DIRT AND MUD
- **Nature of injury:** DUST IN EYES
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 12.87 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Joseph  Kuperavage; Robert  Kuperavage
- **Operator:** Joseph Kuperavage Coal Company
- **Mine:** [3605518](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3605518)
## Narrative

EE was removing a tooth from a dragline bucket when a clump of dirt dislodged from the tooth socket and struck him in the face. Despite wearing goggles, a piece of dirt or rust apparently got in his eye causing irritation.  EE decided to  report the injury on 7/25/11 and lost 1 day of work after a foreign body was removed from his eye by a doctor on 7/25/11.

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