# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220031070004` · 04/09/2003 · Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** ELEVATORS,CAGES,SKIPS,ETC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** UPPER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 19.96 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Eagle Materials Inc & Heidelberger Zement Ag
- **Operator:** Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP
- **Mine:** [4102781](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4102781)
## Narrative

EE HAD EXITED THE ELEVATOR ON THE GROUND FLOOR & WAS CLOSING THE ELEVATOR DOORS BY PULLING DOWN ON A 2' LONG NYLON STRAP ATTACHED TO THE TOP HALF OF THE 2-PART DOOR. HE GRABBED THE END OF THE STRAP W/HIS RT HAND & PULLED DOWN HARD. DOOR HAD BEEN LUBRICATED EARLIER THAT DAY & WAS SLIDING MORE EASILY THAN NORMAL. THE DOORS CLOSED QUICKLY & HIS RT HAND MUST'VE SWUNG BTWN THE DOOR EDGE

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