# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220000270036` · 01/20/2000 · Kindill Mining Incorporated
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** ABRAS STONE,WHEEL GRINDER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 22
- **Mine experience:** 30 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated
- **Operator:** Kindill Mining Incorporated
- **Mine:** [1200332](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/1200332)
## Narrative

EE WAS SITTING AND BUILDING UP A TOOTH BASE ON A 2550 DRAGLINE BUCKET. HE WAS USING A 7"" DISC GRINDER, GRINDING THE FRONT OF THE BASE WHEN HE HEARD A NOISE TO HIS RIGHT. HE TURNED TO SEE WHAT IT WAS AND EVIDENTLY AS HE TUEN HIS BODFY ENOUGHTHAT HIS PANT LEG WAS CAUGHT BY THE GRINDER WHEEL WHICH PULLED THE GRINDER INTO HIS KNEE CAP. EE WAS IN THE BUCKET BUILDING.

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