# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220042540020` · 08/12/2004 · Peabody Natural Resources Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 106
- **Mine experience:** 19.85 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Peabody Natural Resources Company
- **Mine:** [2901879](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2901879)
## Narrative

ON 8/11/04 EE LIFTED AN 80 LB. SWIVEL HEAD ATTACHMENT SEVERAL TIMES WITHOUT PAIN BUT WHEN HE GOT OUT OF HIS VEHICLE AT HOME, HE FELT PAIN TO HIS LOWER BACK. HE REPORTED THE PAIN THE NEXT DAY. THE DOCTOR ALLOWED HIM TO CONTINUE WORKING BUT ON 8/25 WHILE STARTING TO CLIMB A HAUL TRUCK LADDER, HE FELT PAIN AGAIN. ON 9/2 AN MRI SHOWED  DISC AND FACET DISEASE AND FACET ANTHROPATHY.

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