# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220203180022` · 11/05/2020 · Western Rock Products
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** KNIFE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Western Rock Products
- **Mine:** [4202099](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4202099)
## Narrative

IE & co-worker were inserting a new belt, the choke rigging on the old belt was not going to hold through the process. IE lifted up on the slack of belt & co-worker attempted to cut a hole using the fixed serrated blade on EE's Leatherman. As EE attempted to cut a hole and applied pressure, the blade slipped off and struck IE puncturing the leg. 

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