# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220250150026` · 01/09/2025 · Standard Sand & Silica Company
## 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:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PLANTS,TREES,VEGETATION
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** EAR(S) EXTERNAL
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Valerie  Carnes
- **Operator:** Standard Sand & Silica Company
- **Mine:** [0900815](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900815)
## Narrative

Employees were cleaning out the creek drainpipe. While attempting to remove a tree, part of the tree or a mud pile swung and hit the employee on the left side by EE's ear.

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