# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220150820023` · 03/13/2015 · Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.54 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.
- **Mine:** [4407129](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407129)
## Narrative

Bates Contractor: During an attempted retrieval of an immobilized continuous miner, a 2"" connecting clevis pin broke away from the two bars it was attached to and the pin passed through the protective wrapping and struck the Bates Contractor in the chest. He was approx. 25' away in the intersection out by.

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