# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220170750012` · 03/07/2017 · Thoroughfare Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** WOOD ITEMS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LOWER LEG/TIBIA/FIBULA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Armstrong Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Thoroughfare Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [1519744](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519744)
## Narrative

EE was hanging an A-Frame and was holding it up with left knee. The A-Frame slipped off the stud and came down on EE as EE fell their right foot did not turn when their body twisting their knee. EE was treated at Muhlenberg Community Hospital and diagnosed with a fracture to the right medial tibial plateau.

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