# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220140800008` · 03/15/2014 · Highland Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Set or remove brattice
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** THIGH/FEMUR
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1502709](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502709)
## Narrative

Employee was hanging curtain in #9 entry. The continuous miner was loading gob out of the intersection. A plate picked up by the continuous miner head struck the employee in the left thigh causing a incision that required 3 sutures to close.

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