# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220142740028` · 09/27/2014 · ARMSTRONG COAL CO., INC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Outside foreman, Leadman
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 58
- **Mine experience:** 1.17 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Armstrong Energy Inc
- **Operator:** ARMSTRONG COAL CO., INC.
- **Mine:** [1519511](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519511)
## Narrative

Employee the 2nd shift foreman had started the pit pump when he saw a twist in the discharge hose. He reached for the hose and the pump picked up water. The hose hit him in the left thigh knocking him to the ground.

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