# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220062420011` · 08/20/2006 · Brooks Run Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Brooks Run Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4609066](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609066)
## Narrative

Employee was trying to retrieve a piece of drill steel that had become lodged in the drill pot of the roof bolting machine. When he pulled up on the steel with both hands, the steel suddenly came loose and the momentum of the pulling action cause the end of the steel to hit him above his right eye.

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