# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220152180049` · 08/01/2015 · Amrize Mid-America Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 36
- **Mine experience:** 3.94 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Holcim Ltd
- **Operator:** Amrize Mid-America Inc.
- **Mine:** [1103144](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103144)
## Narrative

While discharging a 6-inch pump line to fill the water truck, a hose fitting failed, causing the water line to whip toward the employee, knocking him off his feet and onto a concrete block where he was struck by the hose and pinned against the block. The miner suffered five or six broken ribs and a punctured lung.

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