# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220172330034` · 08/10/2017 · Sand Products, WI, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Jim  McMahon; Brad  Thompson
- **Operator:** Sand Products, WI, LLC
- **Mine:** [4703717](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4703717)
## Narrative

Miner was working on pulling a bearing off of a shaft.  EE was inching it out to allow enough space to place a strap on, but the grease on the shaft caused the cover plate and bearing to slip off and fall.  The bearing and cover plate landed on the top right of miners foot.

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