# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220021570044` · 05/22/2002 · Surface Minerals Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kenneth L  Stacy
- **Operator:** Surface Minerals Company
- **Mine:** [4407038](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407038)
## Narrative

I WAS WAITING FOR THE TRUCK TO GET LOADED AND WHEN IT WAS I STEPPED OUTSIDE THE DOOR TO PUSH UP THE TARP WHEN I DID THE RAIL OF THE TARP KNOCKED OFF A ROCK A LUMP OF COAL OFF THE TOP OF THE TR UCK ONTO MY HEAD.

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