# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220062150029` · 03/27/2006 · Webster County Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Timberman
- **Activity:** Timbering, Build cribs
- **Injury source:** POST,CAPS,HEADERS,TIMBER
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 54
- **Mine experience:** 16.9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Webster County Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [1502132](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502132)
## Narrative

Employee was on his knees lifting and twisting large timbers as he was timbering the aircourse. As he lifted and turned he felt a pain in his low back and right leg. He continued working and the pain got worse. An MRI showed a bone fragment against a nerve. He started missing work on 7-24-06 and had surgery on 7-31-06.

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