# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220092750018` · 09/29/2009 · Lone Star Aggregates Acquisitions, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Safety director
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** EAR(S) INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.52 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Fred Weber, Inc.
- **Operator:** Lone Star Aggregates Acquisitions, LLC
- **Mine:** [4104474](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104474)
## Narrative

Employee was loading scrap steel into loader bucket when he threw a large piece into bucket causing it to bounce out and strike him on the left side of his head. His hearing aid broke inside his ear canal. Employee went to the ER to remove the foreign objects from his ear canal.

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