# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220092580022` · 09/10/2009 · Memphis Stone & Gravel Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 5.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James J  Madison III; Richard C  Moore Et  Al
- **Operator:** Memphis Stone & Gravel Company
- **Mine:** [2200668](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2200668)
## Narrative

Employee states he had positioned a 6X10 sheet of metal in a vertical position in a hopper to weld.  He had placed  (3) 2x2's in a horizontal position with one end against the sheet of metal and the other against the wall.  As he was climbing out of the hopper on a ladder sheet of metal came unsecured and pinned him against the ladder.

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