# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220002210014` · 07/24/2000 · Eastern Associated Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- **Nature of injury:** HERNIA;RUPTURE
- **Body part:** HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- **Days lost:** 85
- **Mine experience:** 0.61 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Eastern Associated Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [4606448](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4606448)
## Narrative

ON THE LOCATION WHERE SOME OLD DRYERS HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT FOR NEW DRYERS; NEW CHUTES WERE BEING INSTALLED. ONE OF THE CHUTES TURNED OVER AND THE EMPLOYEE TRIED TO HOLD IT FROM HITTING THE FLOO R HARD ENOUGH TO DAMAGE THE CERAMIC LINING. HE DID NOT EXPERIENE PAIN AT THIS TIME, BUT HAD A KNOT ON HIS GROIN AND PAIN THE NEXT DAY.

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