# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220072110042` · 07/18/2007 · Holcim (US) Incorporated
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Occupation:** Ledgeman/hand, Quarry man
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** MOLTEN METAL
- **Nature of injury:** BURN OR SCALD (HEAT)
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Holcim Ltd
- **Operator:** Holcim (US) Incorporated
- **Mine:** [2000022](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2000022)
## Narrative

Employee was working in a bent over position beneath the mill. Another worker was in the mill arc gouging steel bolts. The person arc gouging discarded a spent rod onto the mill floor. The rod fell through a hole in the mill and landed in the back of injured's pants causing him to be burned.

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