# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220191360003` · 05/08/2019 · Tunnel Ridge, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- **Nature of injury:** DUST IN EYES
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Tunnel Ridge, LLC
- **Mine:** [4608864](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608864)
## Narrative

A contractor employee was cleaning off a plate of metal to prepare for a weld to clear some dust from the surface, the employee used mouth to blow the dust off the plate when a foreign object entered eye. The employee immediately attempted to remove the object from eye with help form a coworker, but they were unsuccessful. 

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