# STRIKING OR BUMPING
> MSHA accident `220070190035` · 01/04/2007 · Rockydale Quarries Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** STRIKING OR BUMPING
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 0.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** David D  Willis
- **Operator:** Rockydale Quarries Corporation
- **Mine:** [4400105](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4400105)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning off catwalk when he decided to kick a large, what he thought to be a mud ball. When he kicked at the mud ball he discovered that it was a rock. He was placed off balance when the rock did not move thus straining his back.

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