# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220121640027` · 06/05/2012 · Mallard Sand and Gravel
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Mallard Sand and Gravel
- **Mine:** [2501231](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2501231)
## Narrative

The employee was crouched down with his head under the lift arm of a loader putting a rubber seal on the bucket pin after greasing it. When he went to get back up he struck the top of his head on the loader arm.

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