# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220082530017` · 08/31/2008 · West Virginia Mine Power, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 90
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** John B  Preece
- **Operator:** West Virginia Mine Power, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4609172](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609172)
## Narrative

The employee was in the process of blocking under the undercarriage of a raised 14/15 CM continuous miner to replace the crawler pads.  As he stuck his hand under the undercarriage to retrieve a wooden block the previously installed wooden crib under the cutter head shifted allowing the machine to fall catching his hand between the wearing strip and the mine floor.

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