# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220222030009` · 07/12/2022 · Quikrete Construction Materials LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Escaping a hazard
- **Injury source:** PLANTS,TREES,VEGETATION
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.81 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cementos Argos S A
- **Operator:** Quikrete Construction Materials LLC
- **Mine:** [0800159](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0800159)
## Narrative

Employees were removing trees with an excavator and a sling. The sling was wrapped around the trees to pull them out with the excavator. When one of the trees was being pulled out, the top portion snapped off. An employee on the ground ran to avoid the falling debris. However, the falling debris brushed across their left shoulder and back, injuring the left shoulder.

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