# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220131980015` · 07/12/2013 · Fox Knob Coal Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 45
- **Mine experience:** 0.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** U S Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Fox Knob Coal Company Inc
- **Mine:** [1514728](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1514728)
## Narrative

Employee was changing bit on the Highwall miner head and a rock became dislodged from the wall and hit the employee and knocked him into the miner head.  The employee received a fractured right wrist and two fractured vertebrate.

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