# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220071020044` · 04/03/2007 · Boyd Sand & Gravel Ltd
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Greg D  Boyd; Jamie A  Boyd
- **Operator:** Boyd Sand & Gravel Ltd
- **Mine:** [4104081](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104081)
## Narrative

After helping clear an obstruction in the feeder hopper, employee was struck in the head to the rear of his hard hat by a rock that fell off the conveyor. Employee came to the office and asked for asprin and told what happened. He said he was o.k. and returned to work. One and one half hours later he asked to go to the doctor for x-rays, etc.

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