# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220143640017` · 12/15/2014 · Humphreys Enterprises, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Idle
- **Injury source:** AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 12.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** William D  Humphreys
- **Operator:** Humphreys Enterprises, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4406545](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406545)
## Narrative

Employee stated that he was standing beside parts truck while another employee was dislodging a stuck piece of steel plate in the parts truck bed with a sledge hammer. When the employee was swinging the hammer against the steel plate, he missed and the hammer slipped out of his hands striking the injured employee in the mouth area causing a laceration requiring sutures.

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