# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220160360013` · 01/26/2016 · Lafarge North America
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.06 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Holcim Ltd
- **Operator:** Lafarge North America
- **Mine:** [2000044](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2000044)
## Narrative

Employees were removing a coupling from a reducer shaft. As the coupling was being heated with a gas torch, a puller was being used to apply hydraulic pressure to the coupling. A piece of the coupling broke off and struck the employee that was holding the torch. 

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