# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220122900005` · 10/09/2012 · Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 179
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4601537](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601537)
## Narrative

EE was performing checks on the dust sampling device being worn by the miner operator. When he walked by the turn table of the machine a rock meas. 74"" x 39"" x 8"" thick fell and struck EE on the left side of his body, resulting in a chipped distal femur, fractured knee, tibia, fibula and multiple lacerations to the face and head.

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