# IMPOUNDMENT
> MSHA accident `220082350028` · 08/12/2008 · Badger Mining Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** ACCIDENT ONLY
- **Classification:** IMPOUNDMENT
- **Accident type:** Accident type, without injuries
- **Occupation:** —
- **Activity:** —
- **Injury source:** —
- **Nature of injury:** —
- **Body part:** —
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Timothy J  Wuest
- **Operator:** Badger Mining Corporation
- **Mine:** [4702555](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4702555)
## Narrative

Excavator had been removing material from the toe of the slope which surrounds Pond 7. While taking a break, material began to crumble off the slope. The operator attempted to move the excavator away from the slope, but while attempting to do this, the excavator was engulfed with material and flipped partially on it's side.

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