# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220153020033` · 10/19/2015 · Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** CONDCTR,ELCT,CBL,TROL POL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 4
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4608637](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608637)
## Narrative

Employee stated he bent over and moved the continuous miner cable slack out of the roadway, and when he stood up he felt pain in his back. Employee was diagnosed with a back strain and taken off work. The operator of the coal mine at the time of the incident was Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC.   

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