# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220102080024` · 07/17/2010 · BASF Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** NOSE/NASAL PASSAGES/SINUS/SMELL
- **Days lost:** 239
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** BASF SE
- **Operator:** BASF Corporation
- **Mine:** [0900359](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900359)
## Narrative

Employee pumped liquid kaolin into a tanker trailer without venting the trailer. The trailer consequently pressurized itself. When he attempted to vent the trailer while unloading, he unscrewed a lid on the top of the trailer and the pressure inside the trailer caused the lid to pop off and hit him in the nose. Sustained a laceration to the nose.

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