# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220062830067` · 10/04/2006 · Tennessee Aggregate Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** W T  Ratliff Jr; Donna R  Mc Allister
- **Operator:** Tennessee Aggregate Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4003063](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4003063)
## Narrative

Trying to replace the pin in the linkage arm on 972 wheeled loader, when the bar they had in the hole in the arm, slipped out, letting the arm fall. The linkage arm hit EE in the right ear and left shoulder.

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