# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220162090035` · 07/19/2016 · Aracoma Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Supervise
- **Injury source:** STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 251
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Aracoma Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4609361](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609361)
## Narrative

EE was in the process of recovering rail off of the old #4 track entry. They had been using a rope to load the rail onto the rail car. EE told the motor man to pull the motor and rail car outby when the rope got caught on the side post of the rail car causing 2 rails lying on the mine floor to move outby and strike EE behind knee knocking EE to the mine floor.

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