# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220150080009` · 01/02/2015 · Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** CONTAINERS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C.
- **Mine:** [0503672](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0503672)
## Narrative

Employee states he and another employee were positioned in the cable basket removing de-energized high voltage cable.  After removing a strap, the cable lodged between the angled support bolt and the stirrup on a truss.  When the next strap was removed, the cable dislodged from the truss, striking employee's hardhat and pushing his head into the cable basket causing a laceration.

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