# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220182990031` · 07/12/2017 · Black Hills Bentonite
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** THIGH/FEMUR
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 30 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Thomas A  Thorson
- **Operator:** Black Hills Bentonite
- **Mine:** [4800954](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800954)
## Narrative

The miner was pounding a pin out on a bulldozer, when they felt a pain in the left thigh, though there was minor bleeding the employee disregarded it as a scratch, and continued working. On 7/19/2018 the employee went to the doctor and had an x-ray performed, which revealed a sliver of metal embedded in the thigh that had to be surgically removed. 

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