# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220160620010` · 03/01/2016 · Roanoke Cement Co., LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Titan Cement International S A
- **Operator:** Roanoke Cement Co., LLC
- **Mine:** [4400068](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4400068)
## Narrative

Electrician was working in a shallow trench tightening 2"" conduit, kneeling next to a ground wire.   Backhoe operator, 25 feet away, snagged the ground wire with bucket, lifting the ground wire out of the ground and pinning the knee of the electrician against the ground wire and conduit.  Knee strain with restrictions

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