# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220240740002` · 03/04/2024 · Elk Run Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, Tramming
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Elk Run Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4609640](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609640)
## Narrative

Employee was inching up to install a rib bolt when the canopy struck a cable bolt popping the nut off causing it to fly off and strike the employee in the upper lip.

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