# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220002360024` · 08/16/2000 · Northwestern Resources Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Fall on save level, NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 12.53 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Montana Power Company
- **Operator:** Northwestern Resources Company
- **Mine:** [4103164](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4103164)
## Narrative

HE & A WITNESS (NWR EMPLOYEE) WERE TAKING IDLERS OUT OF A RACK AND PUTTING THEM ON A TABLE TO REBUILD. A LINK THAT HOLDS THE IDLER CAN TOGETHER BROKE, CAUSING BOTH EMPLOYEES TO FALL BACKWARDS . INJURED TWISTED HIS KNEE AT THE SAME TIME THE HALF OF THE GARLAND HIT THE INSIDE OF THE KNEE HE TWISTED. KNEE IS IMMOBILIZED DUE TO SPRAIN.

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