# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220111780023` · 06/24/2011 · McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corp.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Operator:** McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corp.
- **Mine:** [1518721](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1518721)
## Narrative

EE was operating a continuous miner. He was cutting the bottom ledge of rock out from the edge of the #9 intersection, (continuous miner was in the last open crosscut between #8 and #9). The crosscut was on a downward grade, and when he start the cutter head and placed it in the bottom, the miner slew around and struck him with the conveyor boom. EE was not in the ""RED Zone"".

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