# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220170370003` · 01/22/2017 · Wyandotte Dredging
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Barge, Boat, Dredge
- **Injury source:** BLDG,STRUCT,BOAT,RAFT,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 360
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Barry L  Moore
- **Operator:** Wyandotte Dredging
- **Mine:** [1601338](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1601338)
## Narrative

A south bound tow boar pushing 6 loaded barges had trouble controlling the vessel and hit the dredge boar in the rear. It knock the operator our of the captains chair onto the floor. EE was taken to the emergency room.

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