# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220040960021` · 03/27/2004 · Eighty Four Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Longwall operator, Chock operator, Shear operator, Plow operator
- **Activity:** Longwall, Shear, Plow
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 92
- **Mine experience:** 7 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Eighty Four Mining Company
- **Mine:** [3600958](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3600958)
## Narrative

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING TAILGATE DRUM OF THE SHEARER AND WAS MINING TOWARD THE TAIL. AS THE DRUM PASSED THROUGH AN AREA WHERE THE ROOF HAD PREVIOUSLY FALLEN 12' TO 14' HIGH, A PIECE OF ROCK WAS PICKED UP BY THE DRUM AND WAS THROWN INTO THE WALKWAY, STRIKING THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT LEG.

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