# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220111120017` · 04/12/2011 · Maple Coal Co., LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 64
- **Mine experience:** 0.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Walter Energy Incorporated
- **Operator:** Maple Coal Co., LLC
- **Mine:** [4604236](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4604236)
## Narrative

Employee was located in the track entry where the track crew was pulling rails off the rail car, one of the rails caught on another rail in a bind, when it broke free, it swung across the entry and struck the employee in the left leg. Employee was transported to Montgomery Hospital where x-rays revealed a fracture to his proximal tibial plateau, which would require surgery.

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