# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220112970056` · 10/17/2011 · Consolidation Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Timberman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 5.85 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Consolidation Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4601436](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601436)
## Narrative

At approx 7:40pm, a haulage accident occurred on the surface area of mine. The EE was in the process of attaching a wire nip to a trolley pole of a ditch digger while apparently standing in front of the ditch digger. The ditch digger became energized and contacted the EE causing injury and subsequent amputation of the lower right extremity at the hip. EE was pronounced dead.

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