# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220023010001` · 10/07/2002 · Tuscaloosa Resources Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 1.92 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Jerry M  Gaines
- **Operator:** Tuscaloosa Resources Inc
- **Mine:** [0103196](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0103196)
## Narrative

ON OCT.7, 2002, A 31 YEAR OLD MINER WAS FATALLY INJURED BY THE FALL OF A SINGLE ROCK/CLAY MASS FROM LOOSE UNCONSOLIDATED MATERIAL LOCATED ABOVE THE HIGHWALL. RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS & WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN HEAVY JUST PRIOR TO THE START OF THE 6AM SHIFT. MINER WAS HAND SHOVELING RAW COAL FROM THE BASE TO SCOOP INTO LOADER. NOT WEARING A HARD HAT.

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