# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070440004` · 01/31/2007 · McGeorge Contracting Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** DISLOCATION
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2.37 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Haskell  L  Dickinson II
- **Operator:** McGeorge Contracting Company Inc
- **Mine:** [0300876](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0300876)
## Narrative

Lowering a ladder into the gyro to check worn concaves and didn't notice that the safety cable had tangled around his ankle and he released the ladder into the gyro causing him to lose his balance and hurt his left knee.

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