# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220113050036` · 10/21/2011 · Beech Fork Processing LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 26
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James H  Booth
- **Operator:** Beech Fork Processing LLC
- **Mine:** [1517059](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1517059)
## Narrative

Employee was changing a spring on screen #1 using a chain. Fall when the beam clamp on the chain fall pulled away from the beam and the chain fall fell and hit the employee on the back. It fractured 1 vertebra.

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