# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220152660032` · 09/16/2015 · Holden Trap Rock
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 18
- **Mine experience:** 0.17 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Massachusetts Broken Stone Company
- **Operator:** Holden Trap Rock
- **Mine:** [1900012](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1900012)
## Narrative

Assembling an excavator. Chair hooked to counterweight to set it up in order to hook it up in place on excavator. Chair not hooked properly, not secured. Chain came loose and hit employee in the mouth. 

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