# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220163640001` · 12/19/2016 · Atlanta Sand and Supply Co Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
- **Occupation:** Washer operator, Sizing operator
- **Activity:** Enter/work in bins, Silos
- **Injury source:** SAND,GRAVEL,SHELL
- **Nature of injury:** SUFFOC,SMOK INHILAT,DROWN
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 6.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Curt B  Jamison
- **Operator:** Atlanta Sand and Supply Co Inc
- **Mine:** [0900264](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900264)
## Narrative

Wash plant operator was operating a front-end loader during the overnight shift as normal. EE exited the loader and entered the hopper filled with sand the EE had just dumped. EE was fatally injured when they were engulfed in the sand, as it vibrated to the bottom of the hopper. EE may have entered the hopper to try to retrieve two pieces of metal inadvertently dumped into hopper. 

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