# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220040300052` · 12/03/2003 · AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Coal sampler
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** MISCELLANEOUS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** HERNIA;RUPTURE
- **Body part:** HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.65 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [3609005](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3609005)
## Narrative

EE ASSISTED WITH AN UNDERGROUND SURVEY AND AFTER THE WORK WAS FINISHED EE NOTICED MILE IN THE SHOWER WHAT SEEMED LICKE A HERNIA CAUSE IS UNKNOPWN BUT EE SUSPECTED THAT CARRYING THE SURVEYING G EAR IN A CROUCHED POSITION MAY HAVE CAUSED THE HERNIA.

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