# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220011910103` · 06/20/2001 · Granite Construction Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** POST,CAPS,HEADERS,TIMBER
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 41
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Granite Construction Inc
- **Operator:** Granite Construction Company
- **Mine:** [0403107](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0403107)
## Narrative

EE WATCHING REMOVAL OF LIMBS FROM TREE. TRIMMING OF BUSHES AND TREES REQUIRED FOR INSTALLATION OF NEW PERIMETER FENCING. TREES HAD BEEN CUT AND WERE ON GROUND. FOREMAN EE WAS STANDING BY TREE TRUNK WATCHING THAT CUT LIMBS CAME FREE. AN OLD ABANDONED POWER POLE GUY WIRE WAS SNAGGED BY LIMBS PULLING THE RULES OVER CONTACTING FOREMAN EE.

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