# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220043140024` · 11/02/2004 · Kingwood Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 8
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Kingwood Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4608751](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608751)
## Narrative

The employee was operating the remote control miner and needed to throw the cable out of the roadway. When he bent over and tossed the miner cable out of the roadway he felt a pain in his lower back. The employee finished his shift but was unable to return to work his next scheduled shift. Muscle pull, rest and prescription for pain.

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