# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220231110015` · 04/18/2023 · Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CONCUSSION-BRAIN,CEREBRAL
- **Body part:** BRAIN
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Vulcan Materials Company
- **Operator:** Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC
- **Mine:** [4104209](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104209)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning beneath the grizzly, at the dump hopper. When a clumped mass of material fell through the gap in the plate steel shielding the top grizzly, dropped approximately 15 feet, striking the employee on the top rear of their hardhat. Employee sustained a concussion without loss of consciousness and a neck sprain.

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