# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220061930037` · 07/05/2006 · Stoneco, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 8 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Stoneco, Inc.
- **Mine:** [3300181](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3300181)
## Narrative

Employee was clearing a rock that had become wedged between the tailgate & the bed of an R-65 Euclid haul truck using a long pipe. When the rock came loose it fell onto the tire below & bounced towards EE hitting him in the face. He was taken to the ER where he received 10 stitches to his upper lip.

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