# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220093290037` · 11/06/2009 · Columbia Quarry Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** HERNIA;RUPTURE
- **Body part:** HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- **Days lost:** 24
- **Mine experience:** 14.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Clyde D  Trexler
- **Operator:** Columbia Quarry Company
- **Mine:** [1100038](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1100038)
## Narrative

Employee was operating a Cat D8R dozer when a rock became lodged between the trunion arm and the track. When the employee removed the rock, about 50 pound, he felt a strain in his lower right abdomen area. Employee was examined on 11/18/2009, confirming a hernia.

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