# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220112730011` · 09/20/2011 · Salem Stone Corp
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Bulldozer
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Doug  Dalton
- **Operator:** Salem Stone Corp
- **Mine:** [4400189](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4400189)
## Narrative

Employee was operating a D8 dozer with cab, he was traveling around area that was being stripped of overburden.  A rock being seen by employee was misjudged for its size (part of rock was covered with dirt)the track runs over rock when dozer came down it tossed employee forward hitting forehead causing a laceration that required stitches.

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