# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220163470009` · 12/06/2016 · S M Lorusso & Sons Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** APPAREL,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** EAR(S) INTERNAL & HEARING
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 11.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** S M Lorusso & Sons Inc
- **Operator:** S M Lorusso & Sons Inc
- **Mine:** [1900076](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1900076)
## Narrative

Employee was working reinstalling a repaired feeder.  EE jammed EE's hard hat against the feeder, which caused the hard hat suspension to knock a stud that holds EE's hearing aid into EE's ear out. The employee is scheduled for surgery in January to repair this problem and will require a two week recovery period out of work.

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