# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220120310019` · 01/19/2012 · Sapphire Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Cross over (conveyor)
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** TRUNK, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Operator:** Sapphire Coal Company
- **Mine:** [1519188](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519188)
## Narrative

The employee was attempting to cross a belt that was not running and when he stepped on the belt, the belt accidentally started and he lost balance hitting his head on a piece of metal across the belt and then had to jump off the belt.  The employee returned to work the next shift but later diagnosed with a break in a vertebrae and broken ribs.  Employee continues to work.

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