# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220040820069` · 03/08/2004 · Red River Coal Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Pumper
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 85
- **Mine experience:** 14 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** William D  Humphreys
- **Operator:** Red River Coal Company Inc
- **Mine:** [4405971](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4405971)
## Narrative

Employee had riffled down and split a coal sample using the coal splitter. He knelt down to pull out the drawer containing the coal sample. When he bent over to pick up the drawer and rose back up, he felt a pop in his back. Persistant pain occurred and he went to the doctor on 3-9-04 which is his first lost workday.

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