# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070640048` · 02/26/2007 · ICG Hazard, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Blaster, Shooter, Shotfirer, Explosive worker, Powder gang/monkey
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 112
- **Mine experience:** 9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** International Coal Group Inc (ICG)
- **Operator:** ICG Hazard, LLC
- **Mine:** [1518623](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1518623)
## Narrative

Employee was in the process of moving a rock out of the roadway of the powder truck when something snapped in his back causing severe lower back pain. He started missing work on 3/2/07.

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