# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220072780064` · 10/01/2007 · Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Warren  Ames III
- **Operator:** Twin State Sand & Gravel Company Inc
- **Mine:** [2700070](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2700070)
## Narrative

Employee was retrieving pry bar from storage area on the ground, when personnel above him lost control of new return roller they were changing out. The return roller fell, striking the employee on the ground. While the employee was wearing proper safety equipment at the time, the impact of the roller resulted in his death.

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