# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220131980038` · 07/09/2013 · WFI
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 245
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Darrell  Dorsey
- **Operator:** WFI
- **Mine:** [1102636](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1102636)
## Narrative

Employee along with two other employees were sampling a slurry pond. When the equipment that they were using started to sink and got stuck in the muddy coal. They had to unload the trailer full of equipment and pack it across the muddy slurry pond. Then they had to dig out the trailer and push it off the pond. He pulled a muscle in is back.

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