# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220142340007` · 08/20/2014 · Mallard Contracting Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Flash burns (welding)
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MACHINE,NEC-WELDR,OFC MAC
- **Nature of injury:** ELECT.ARC BURN-NOT CONTAC
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.58 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Edward  Helfrich
- **Operator:** Mallard Contracting Company Inc
- **Mine:** [3605023](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3605023)
## Narrative

Employee was helping welder to fabricate steel vibrator deck. Employee was getting ultraviolet flashes without realizing it. Evening of 8/20/2014 he went to the emergency room with painful eyes.  Diagnosis - Ultraviolet Keratitis

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