# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220080170025` · 01/07/2008 · Linwood Mining and Minerals Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** CROWBAR,PRY BAR
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** ELBOW
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 12.37 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Mc Carthy- Bush Corp
- **Operator:** Linwood Mining and Minerals Corporation
- **Mine:** [1300097](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1300097)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning frozen material out of the chute to the screen on the sugar beet plant.  The material was covered with snow and frozen together making it impossible to pass through the chute.  Employee, using an 8 foot metal bar to break up material, sustained an injury to his left elbow.

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