# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220143160076` · 11/11/2014 · Rock-It Natural Stone
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 2
- **Mine experience:** 0.21 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Billy D  Baldwin
- **Operator:** Rock-It Natural Stone
- **Mine:** [3401856](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3401856)
## Narrative

Worker was chopping a rock on the chopper when the rock shattered into several pieces failing to make a clean cut. One of the pieces fell from the chopper table striking the worker on the right leg as it fell. He was checked over by the ER doctor in Poteau and told to put no weight on the bruised and swollen leg for seven (7) days.

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