# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220141950027` · 07/07/2014 · Rogers Group Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Clerk, Timekeeper, Office worker, Director of sales
- **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:** 23
- **Mine experience:** 2.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Rogers Group Inc
- **Operator:** Rogers Group Inc
- **Mine:** [1200010](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1200010)
## Narrative

Two employees lifting printer enclosure from a pallet into the back of a pickup truck with a topper.  While placing the enclosure on the tailgate one employee felt a twinge in their back. Employee was diagnosed with tilted down S1 vertebrae. Employee is a support person and not an actual ""miner"".

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