# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220261400007` · 05/14/2026 · Covia Specialty Minerals, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 8 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Covia Holdings LLC
- **Operator:** Covia Specialty Minerals, Inc.
- **Mine:** [1101981](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/1101981)
## Narrative

Employee was replacing the cutting edge of a loader when the carriage bolt dropped down from its mounting slot, causing the bolt to spin and cut through EE's glove, causing a quarter inch deep laceration, about 2 inches long, in the palm of EE's left hand

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