# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220070080006` · 01/03/2007 · Wyo-Ben, Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- **Occupation:** Drill operator
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** TRUNK, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** 8
- **Mine experience:** 7.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** David  Brown
- **Operator:** Wyo-Ben, Inc
- **Mine:** [4800974](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800974)
## Narrative

Employees sweatshirt strings became entangled in the drill auger. Employee was spun around the auger 3 times before the assistant was able to shut the auger down. Employee has 5 broken ribs on the right side. Fractured right shoulder. Lacerated Liver. Fractured vertabrae #8 thoracic. Employee is in ICU at Deaconess Hospital in Billings, MT.

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