# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220100250022` · 01/14/2010 · Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 6.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Howard L  Mercer
- **Operator:** Turner Brothers Stone Of Crossville, Inc
- **Mine:** [4000095](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4000095)
## Narrative

While two employees were lifting a 1 inch thick sawed slab onto a saw table for further fabrication, one of them felt a pull in his lower back.  He reported the injury the next day, but did not feel he needed to go to the doctor. The next work day it was still bothering him, so we sent him to the doctor, who diagnosed the injury as a lower back sprain.

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