# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220091540033` · 05/29/2009 · Tennessee Marble Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Monica J  Gawet
- **Operator:** Tennessee Marble Company
- **Mine:** [4002841](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4002841)
## Narrative

Employee were trying to lift up a slab of marble and a piece broke free. The employee tried to move out of the way but the material hit him in the leg causing a deep laceration that required stitches.

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