# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220252060005` · 07/22/2025 · Delta Sand & Gravel Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** UPPER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.79 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Paula J  Babb
- **Operator:** Delta Sand & Gravel Company
- **Mine:** [3500481](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3500481)
## Narrative

Employee was holding a piece of angle and flipped it upside down to hold it in place to tack weld.  As EE flipped it over, EE's wrist felt a pop and sharp pain that ran up to EE's elbow.

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