# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220170590027` · 06/15/2016 · Black Castle Mining Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Front-end loader
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 260
- **Mine experience:** 1.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Black Castle Mining Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4607938](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4607938)
## Narrative

EE was operating a 993K loader loading binder. A piece of binder broke loose. The operator felt a tweek in lower back. EE did not receive medical treatment until 12/07/2016, the first treatment. EE was off work at that time with Meniers disease. Management thought that EE was still of work for the Meniers disease and not for the back injury up until 02/17/2017.

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