# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220122060002` · 07/18/2012 · The Coteau Properties Company
## 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:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** MCH PWR TRNSMSN APPR,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 61
- **Mine experience:** 0.33 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** NACCO Industries Inc
- **Operator:** The Coteau Properties Company
- **Mine:** [3200595](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3200595)
## Narrative

Employee was assisting with propel gearing work during an annual outage. When pulling an intermediate pinion the gear unexpectedly shifted and a hole on the side of the gear caught the steel toe of employee's boot bending his foot over the side of a platform he was standing on. The incident caused a fracture of employee's left foot.

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