# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220101730029` · 06/17/2010 · Western Mesquite Mines, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Boom operator
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** PULVERIZED MINERAL (DUST)
- **Nature of injury:** OTHER INJURY,NEC
- **Body part:** EYE(S) OPTIC NERVE/VISON
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** New Gold Inc
- **Operator:** Western Mesquite Mines, Inc.
- **Mine:** [0404614](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/0404614)
## Narrative

While performing pre-op check, employee was extending the boom when a small foreign object fell off boom, hit forehead, and behind safety glasses into employee's left eye.

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