# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220242270023` · 08/12/2024 · Johnson County Aggregates LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Drill operator
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.92 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Johnson County Aggregates LLC
- **Mine:** [1400068](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1400068)
## Narrative

Employee struck a drill steel coupler with a hammer trying to remove a broken piece of strikerbar that had broken off in side of the coupler. On the second strike of the hammer an approximately 2 inch long sliver broke off the strikerbar section and impaled about 6 inches above the right wrist of the employee. The employee removed the debris and needed 2 stitches at medical clinic.

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