# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220172620016` · 09/13/2017 · Surface Minerals Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MOLTEN METAL
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** EAR(S) INTERNAL & HEARING
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Operator:** Surface Minerals Company
- **Mine:** [4407355](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407355)
## Narrative

Lying underneath excavator utilizing an acetylene torch to cut track guide when a piece of hot slag entered right ear

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