# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220121240029` · 04/24/2012 · Converse County
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MACHINE,NEC-WELDR,OFC MAC
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 0.73 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Converse County-WY
- **Operator:** Converse County
- **Mine:** [4801649](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4801649)
## Narrative

Employee was cutting off bolts (on the cone crusher) that hold the cone to the frame when he reached to move a chunk of bolt and the torch caught on his glove and burned the back side of his hand.

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