# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220171720028` · 06/16/2017 · Aracoma Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** LEG, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** 259
- **Mine experience:** 1.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Operator:** Aracoma Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4608801](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608801)
## Narrative

Rock had fallen from the working face into the conveyor of the continuous miner and was then loaded into the shuttle car. The rock then fell off the shuttle car, striking the employee's left leg, causing fractures to the femur, tibia, and fibula.

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