# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220122700020` · 09/12/2012 · Banner Blue Coal Company 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company 
- **Mine:** [4407269](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407269)
## Narrative

As employee was loading roof bolts plates onto a bolter he hit his right arm near his elbow on a bundle of plates lying on the machine and received a laceration that took 7 sutures to close the cut.

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