# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220173130007` · 10/24/2017 · ERP Federal Mining Complex, LLC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 12
- **Mine experience:** 9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund (VCLF)
- **Operator:** ERP Federal Mining Complex, LLC.
- **Mine:** [4601456](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601456)
## Narrative

Employee claims to have strained employee's lower back while shoveling spillage on the first floor of the prep plant. Employee continued to work and then called off on 11/06/2017 citing the earlier ""injury"".

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