# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070950049` · 03/26/2007 · Lafarge Joliet Inc
## 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:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** KNIFE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Lafarge S A
- **Operator:** Lafarge Joliet Inc
- **Mine:** [1103084](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103084)
## Narrative

EE was organizing a storage trailer. He was cutting open boxes with a utility knife. He set the utility knife in an open box on a shelf in order to reach for another box. While he was reaching for another box, he bumped into the original box and the knife. The box and the knife hit his left leg and gave him a laceration.

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