# HOISTING
> MSHA accident `220070440029` · 02/08/2007 · Consolidation Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HOISTING
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Examiner, Fire boss, Pre-shift examiner, Mine examiner
- **Activity:** Caging, Operate elevator
- **Injury source:** ELEVATORS,CAGES,SKIPS,ETC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 337
- **Mine experience:** 0.06 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Consolidation Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4601318](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601318)
## Narrative

Employee was firebossing for a construction company. He and three other workers were coming out of the shaft in a construction bucket when the bucket suddenly dropped aprox. 10 to 30 feet and then immediately stopped causing his legs to be driven against the bottom of the bucket and broke both his legs below the knee.

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