# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220242920025` · 10/14/2024 · Eagle Specialty Materials LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NOSE/NASAL PASSAGES/SINUS/SMELL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.48 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Petri E Koivula; David Michael  Jamison
- **Operator:** Eagle Specialty Materials LLC
- **Mine:** [4801078](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4801078)
## Narrative

Miner was washing TT1.They shut the nozzle off and pulled on the hose. The miner was holding the hose 2 feet away from the nozzle. The nozzle appears to have contacted a beam and turned on. When it energized, it flipped the nozzle up impacting the nose and mouth area resulting in a laceration at the base of the left nostril. Miner received three stitches on the laceration.

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