# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220023470001` · 11/20/2002 · Bentonite Performance Minerals, LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PUMPS,FANS,COMP,ENG,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Halliburton Company
- **Operator:** Bentonite Performance Minerals, LLC 
- **Mine:** [4800070](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800070)
## Narrative

EE STRAINED BACK WHILE ANOTHER EE WAS HELPING HIM LIFT A GEAR BOX. GEAR BOX WEIGHED APPROX. 40LBS. THIS WAS A RE-INJURY FROM A PREVIOUS INCIDENT(2/28/02). EE HAD 3 APPOINTMENTS WITH CHIROPRACT OR.

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