# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220192140017` · 07/12/2019 · Appomattox Lime Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** MOLTEN METAL
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** ANKLE
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Rockydale Quarries Corporation
- **Operator:** Appomattox Lime Company
- **Mine:** [4400144](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4400144)
## Narrative

Employee was welding when a piece of slag burned through employee's pant leg and down into right boot, burning the outside of right ankle. Employee continued to work until 7/23/2019 when employee was taken away from work because of the burn for three days and returned to normal duty on 7/26/2019.  

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