# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220121500013` · 04/06/2012 · Top-Way Properties Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Rotary bucket excavator operator
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** HAND TOOLS,NONPOWERED,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 106
- **Mine experience:** 27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Tom O  Peterson
- **Operator:** Top-Way Properties Inc
- **Mine:** [4103229](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4103229)
## Narrative

EE was cleaning out tracks on 230 excavator John Deere. Working with a shovel he bent down to reach under track and at a angle on his knee when he thinks the damage occurred.

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