# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `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:** EP Management Corporation
- **Operator:** EP Minerals, LLC
- **Mine:** [2600680](https://api.ai-analytics.org/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.

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