# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220002760120` · 05/24/2000 · Echo Bay Minerals Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 4.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Echo Bay Mines Ltd
- **Operator:** Echo Bay Minerals Company
- **Mine:** [2601925](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2601925)
## Narrative

EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING 80 LB BALL MILL LINERS AND STRAINED HIS LEFT SHOULDER. SEPT 2000 EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF NUMBNESS IN HIS LEFT THUMB. HE WAS TAKEN TO DR AND EVALUATED. HE MAY HAVE CAUSED INJURY TO C-5-C6 CERVICAL DISC DURING THIS INCIDENT WHICH LATER CAUSED THIS NUMBNESS TO OCCUR. HE IS BEING PLACED ON LIFTING RESTRICTIONS.

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