# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220043640016` · 12/15/2004 · Highland Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 50
- **Mine experience:** 0.27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1502709](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502709)
## Narrative

EMPLOYEE REPORTED: ATTEMPTING TO PULL CONTINUOUS MINER CABLE OVER TO PLACE ALONG COAL RIB. HE WAS WEARING RUBBER GLOVES FOR HAND PROTECTION. THE GLOVES WERE DAMP & THE NYLON CABLE STRAP WAS DAMP. WHEN PULLING THE CABLE, HE LOST HIS GRIP FALLING AGAINST THE COAL RIB. HE CAUGHT HIMSELF AGAINST THE RIB BY EXTENDING HIS RT. ARM OUT. SUDDEN JAR RESULTED IN PAIN TO HIS SHOULDER.

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