# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220212530020` · 08/29/2021 · Blue Creek Mining, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 71
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Sev.en Global Investments a.s.
- **Operator:** Blue Creek Mining, LLC
- **Mine:** [4609297](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609297)
## Narrative

The employee was using a 4 pound sledge hammer to drive a boom pin out of a continuous miner, the miner removed glasses after they fogged up and begin to drive the pin out when a piece of metal came off the pin and embedded into right eye.

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