# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220243230021` · 11/15/2024 ·  MLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** SCALP
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** HBM Holdings Company
- **Operator:**  MLC
- **Mine:** [2300542](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300542)
## Narrative

PROT Employee was cleaning RK2 Baghouse on 3-11 shift. At one point EE bent over near a cell discharge damper to pick up trash. As EE went to stand up with EE's hard hat on, EE struck EE's head just under the edge of the hard hat at a force hard enough to cut the back of EE's head requiring 3 staples.

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