# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220090230015` · 01/21/2009 · Runts Trucking Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 40
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Jerry E  Brown
- **Operator:** Runts Trucking Inc.
- **Mine:** [0405710](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0405710)
## Narrative

The loader operator was walking over to the screen to shut it down and a rock, approximately 12 inches by 4 inches, from the grizzly bars on the feed hopper slid off grazing the operator's hardhat and striking him in the right foot. According to the MD the operator has fractures of tarsal and metatarsal bones.

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