# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220080580006` · 02/20/2008 · Jeffrey Sand Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 61
- **Mine experience:** 8.29 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** W Scott  McGeorge
- **Operator:** Jeffrey Sand Company
- **Mine:** [0300400](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0300400)
## Narrative

Doing maintenance on a Eagle Sand Screw. A peice of steel fell and hit my left foot and broke two bones.

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