# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220253170362` · 10/16/2025 · US Vanadium, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 111
- **Mine experience:** 0.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC
- **Operator:** US Vanadium, LLC
- **Mine:** [0300479](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0300479)
## Narrative

At the time of the incident, the injured employee had just cut a sheet loose and was trying to pry it up, they went to stand up and missed a step, stepping off the edge of the sheet and fell through the opening from the first removed panel.  The crew had previously hung self-retracting lifelines for tie-off, but the injured employee was not tied-off at the time of the fall.

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