# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220170660025` · 03/03/2017 · Continental Cement Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Prep plant foreman, Supervisor, Mill plant supervisor, Kiln supervisor
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** THIGH/FEMUR
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 24 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Summit Materials LLC
- **Operator:** Continental Cement Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [1300125](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1300125)
## Narrative

Employee was pulling a 100 lb. propane bottle onto the elevator, had the bottle tipped at an angle to clear the lip of the threshold when the safety guard employee was using to pull the bottle came off and the bottle fell striking left leg and lacerating thigh.  Employee had 8 stitches, a tetanus shot and prophylactic antibiotics prescribed.

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