# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220252450017` · 08/23/2025 · Master Products Corp
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 9.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ricardo  Cardona; Victor S  Maldonado
- **Operator:** Master Products Corp
- **Mine:** [5400299](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/5400299)
## Narrative

On the 23 of august 2025, at approximately 10:39am, a surface miner sustained a head injury after being accidentally struck by a sledgehammer that was in use during repair of entrance gate. The miner was moving a ladder when the sledgehammer fell from the top of the ladder, directly striking the top of their head. They suffered a scalp laceration with bleeding.

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