# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220161440017` · 05/12/2016 · Liberty Materials, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **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:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** TOE(S)/PHALANGES
- **Days lost:** 7
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James E  Welch; Evelyn  Welch
- **Operator:** Liberty Materials, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4104992](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104992)
## Narrative

Four employees were carrying a steel pipe. Two of them dropped one end of the pipe and the pipe landed on one of their feet. The impact broke the miner's right pinky toe. The miner was wearing steel toe boots. 

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