# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220020250012` · 01/10/2002 · M.R. Paving & Excavating, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Power shovel, Dragline
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 90
- **Mine experience:** 0.01 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Timothy C  Rahe
- **Operator:** M.R. Paving & Excavating, Inc.
- **Mine:** [2100644](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2100644)
## Narrative

EE WAS OPERATING A TRACTOR BACKHOE W/HAMMER TO BREAK FROST IN GRAVEL PIT SO EXCAVATOR COULD LOAD GRAVEL. HE DROVE BACKHOE WITHIN 20 FT OF BANK IN PIT. HE STOPPED BACKHOE AND TURNED IN HIS SEAT TO OPERATE THE CONTROLS FOR THE HAMMER. THE BACKHOE STARTED TO MOVE TOWARD THE EDGE OF THE DROPOFF. BY THE TIME HE GOT TURNED AROUND TO TRY TO STOP, THE BACK HOE WENT OVER THE EDGE AND THE EE

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