# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220192800001` · 09/27/2019 · Hanson Aggregates LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** EAR(S) EXTERNAL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Heidelberg Materials AG
- **Operator:** Hanson Aggregates LLC
- **Mine:** [4101495](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4101495)
## Narrative

EE was attempting to remove screen covers to screw located below screen to remove broken flights when screen got caught on EE's shirt, causing the screen to twist, catching the EE's left ear lobe with jagged edge of screen cloth causing a laceration that required 5 sutures to close. 

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