# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220121800008` · 06/16/2012 · Powell Mountain Energy LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 182
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Powell Mountain Energy LLC
- **Mine:** [1518734](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1518734)
## Narrative

While employee was backing up the continuous miner he stopped to hang a loop of cable on the boom.  While doing so, the boom of the continuous miner caught the employee's left leg against the coal rib resulting in a fractured leg.

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