# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220052060002` · 07/21/2005 · Specialty Granules LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** UPPER ARM/HUMERUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Specialty Granules LLC
- **Operator:** Specialty Granules LLC
- **Mine:** [3603460](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3603460)
## Narrative

Employee was setting a new chute section on a screen tower.  The chute was rigged to the crane line with a single choker hitch.  As the chute was being lowered through a floor opening it got hung up on a flange.  Employee tried to straighten the piece and it swung and crushed his left bicep up against the structure.

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