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HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

220170380002 · 01/17/2017 · New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc.

Details

Degree of injury
NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type
Struck by flying object
Occupation
Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
Activity
Supervise
Injury source
METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury
CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part
MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
Days lost
0
Mine experience
21.1 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc
Operator
New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc.
Mine
3600261

Narrative

while helping to remove a bearing off of a screen shaft, an employee was using a hammer and struck the bearing causing a piece of metal to fly striking injured employee in the lip it was thought to be a laceration, but was later found to be imbedded in injured employee's lip

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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