# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220192620016` · 09/18/2019 · Carolina Quarries Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Ledgeman/hand, Quarry man
- **Activity:** Double jack
- **Injury source:** AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 17 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Polycor Inc
- **Operator:** Carolina Quarries Inc
- **Mine:** [3100017](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3100017)
## Narrative

Employee was breaking rock with an eight pound sledge hammer and missed wedge causing hammer to come back and strike them in the face, forehead, causing a laceration.

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