# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220210780024` · 03/12/2021 · Gateway Dredging and Contracting
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** FACE,NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 8.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** David J  Bangert
- **Operator:** Gateway Dredging and Contracting
- **Mine:** [2300889](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300889)
## Narrative

Employee was trying to insert a spud pin into a spud before the spud stopped moving.  Pin struck victim in the head.

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