# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220120550040` · 02/17/2012 · AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 128
- **Mine experience:** 0.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [3609342](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3609342)
## Narrative

While cutting sandrock bottom outby in #5 Entry to cut a ditch for water to run to a sump, a piece of sandrock flew up hitting employee in the right eye.  The sandrock broke safety glasses of employee and cut his right eye.

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