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HANDLING OF MATERIALS

220101940036 · 07/08/2010 · EP Minerals, LLC

Details

Degree of injury
DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
Classification
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Accident type
Struck by falling object
Occupation
Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
Activity
Idle
Injury source
METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury
FRACTURE,CHIP
Body part
TOE(S)/PHALANGES
Days lost
0
Mine experience
0.02 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
EP Management Corporation
Operator
EP Minerals, LLC
Mine
2600680

Narrative

Employee was performing hole watch duties at ground level while scaffolding was being built in a lower compartment of a baghouse. Scaffold materials were being passed in through a manway. An 8ft. scaffold pole slipped from the builders hand inside the unit falling to the ground and hitting the hole watcher in the left foot fracturing big toe behind steel toe boot protection.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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