# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220010510161` · 02/14/2001 · Mountain Cement Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Enter/work in bins, Silos
- **Injury source:** PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- **Nature of injury:** DUST IN EYES
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 3.46 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Eagle Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Mountain Cement Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4800007](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4800007)
## Narrative

EE WAS EXAMINING AN AREA OF THE PLANT THAT HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AS AN AREA THAT CONTAINS LARGE VOLUMES OF DUST. EE WAS WEARING GOGGLES OVER HIS GLASSES TO KEEP DUST OUT OF HIS EYES, BUT A PARTI CLE OF DUST MANAGED TO GET INSIDE OF THE GOGGLES AND BECAME EMBEDDE IN HIS LEFT EYE. EE ATTEMPTED TO WASH PARTICLE OUT OF HIS EYE BUT WAS UNABLE TO CLEAR EYE. OPTICIAN REMOVED PARTICLE, MEDIC

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