# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220201270015` · 05/04/2020 · Giant Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 32.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Elementia Materiales
- **Operator:** Giant Cement Company
- **Mine:** [3800007](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3800007)
## Narrative

The employee was removing a door on the BE-23 bucket elevator (head end); when employee felt a pain in lower back. The employee did not want a medical evaluation at the time of the injury. On 05/04/2020 the employee did not work scheduled shift due to back pain, and was evaluated by the occupational medicine clinic resulting in a restriction of duty. 

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