# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220011270011` · 04/24/2001 · Mullite Company Of America
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 10 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Asea Brown Boveri Ltd (ABB)
- **Operator:** Mullite Company Of America
- **Mine:** [0900188](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/0900188)
## Narrative

EE WAS MODIFYING ROTARY SCREENS ON A SPROUT VAUER WHEN HIS HARD HAT FELL OFF. HE DID NOT PUT IT BACK ON. A FEW MINUTES LATER, THE EE RAISED HIS HEAD AND STRUCK IT ON A IN-FEED CHUTE, CAUSING A LACERATION TO THE TOP OF THE HEAD. THIS RESULTED IN EIGHT STITCHES.

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