# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220151770023` · 06/23/2015 · McElroy Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter helper, Rock bolter helper, Pinner helper
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** MINE RESCUE EQUIPMENT
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 57
- **Mine experience:** 7 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Robert E  Murray
- **Operator:** McElroy Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4601437](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601437)
## Narrative

A fully trained miner was helping transport another employee on a stretcher and when he bent down to help lift the stretcher the employee heard a popping sound in his left knee and had a stinging sensation in his knee.

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