# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220060230040` · 01/13/2006 · HMC Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** PLANTS,TREES,VEGETATION
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 356
- **Mine experience:** 0.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** HMC Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [4608895](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608895)
## Narrative

Cutting a tree down and there was a rotten tree above the one being cut down. The limbs of the two trees entangled and the one being cut down pulled the rotten tree down causing the rotten tree to strike employee in the spine area of the neck.

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