# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220002170103` · 08/01/2000 · Mill Branch Coal Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Supply man, Supply worker, Nipper
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 49
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cumberland Resources Corporation
- **Operator:** Mill Branch Coal Corporation
- **Mine:** [4406861](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406861)
## Narrative

THE INJURED WAS HAULING SUPPLIES WITH A BATTERY POWERED SCOOP. HE STOPPED AND GET OUT OF THE SCOOP TO OPEN A SET OF DOORS. WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE SCOOP DECK IT APPEARS THAT HE ACCIDENTLY STRU CK THE STEERING CONTROLS WHICH CAUSEN THE MACHINE TO PARTICULAR THE INJURED'S LEGS WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MACHINE AND THE DOOR.

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