# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220113500040` · 12/15/2011 · El Segundo Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 134
- **Mine experience:** 2.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** El Segundo Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [2902257](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2902257)
## Narrative

IE was assisting maint crew install latch bar and lever on shovel. Once the latch bar slid into the trip lever the IE stumbled backwards, IE tried to regain balance and his arm got bound up under the trip lever bending his wrist backward and resulting in a fractured left arm just above the wrist. The fracture was set at the ER.

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