# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220193540001` · 12/11/2019 · Lexington Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Haulage or Dump truck
- **Injury source:** HGHWY ORE CARIER,LRGE TRK
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 33
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [1514324](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1514324)
## Narrative

The employee was going from the worksite to the plant with a load of coal when the driver came upon a rise in the road and they missed a gear at the top of the rise.  The truck was then in neutral and they lost control on the down grade of the rise and the truck turned on its side. The gear shift struck the employee in the rib cage causing a possible fracture to rib. 

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