# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220171920011` · 05/24/2017 · Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** MISCELLANEOUS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EAR(S) EXTERNAL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.48 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Rio Tinto Group
- **Operator:** Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper
- **Mine:** [4201996](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4201996)
## Narrative

An employee was in the process of completing a lockout when they dropped the lock on the grating, bent to retrieve the lock and when standing up, struck their right ear against a sink resulting in a laceration to the mid section of the right ear. The laceration resulted in 5 sutures placed on the outer edge of the ear.

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