# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220252340030` · 08/15/2025 · Perkins Cinders Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** ABRAS STONE,WHEEL GRINDER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** E Kay  Perkins
- **Operator:** Perkins Cinders Inc
- **Mine:** [0201398](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0201398)
## Narrative

Employee was attempting to cut a small diameter hose with a grinder.  The hose was coiled and when the employee cut through the hose it un-coiled and forced the grinder into their thumb causing a laceration that required approx. 5 stitches

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