# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220113460034` · 12/07/2011 · Pinnacle Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Beltman, Conveyor man,  Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** KNIFE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** WRIST
- **Days lost:** 52
- **Mine experience:** 1.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
- **Operator:** Pinnacle Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4601816](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601816)
## Narrative

Employee was trying to fix plastic guarding around a drive at a junction.  He had just changed his knife blade and was attempting to cut a zip tie while he was holding the guard.  The knife cut through the zip tie and created an incision in his left wrist which required stitches.

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