# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220212280001` · 07/28/2021 · Echols Mill Quarries LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Fall to lower level, NEC
- **Occupation:** Outside foreman, Leadman
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** David W  Dye; Randy K  Smith
- **Operator:** Echols Mill Quarries LLC
- **Mine:** [0900057](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900057)
## Narrative

EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.

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