# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220052770011` · 09/22/2005 · Western Mesquite Mines, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 185
- **Mine experience:** 18.76 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Western Goldfields Incorporated
- **Operator:** Western Mesquite Mines, Inc.
- **Mine:** [0404614](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0404614)
## Narrative

While in the process of closing a valve on Pipe #2 at the CIC, the employee felt his right knee buckle to the inside of his stance and a sharp pain in his knee.

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