# MACHINERY
> **FATAL** · MSHA accident `220211520016` · 05/18/2021 · Nyrstar Tennessee Mines, Strawberry Plains LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** FATALITY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** NONPOWRD VECH-DOLI,WHLBRW
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** HEAD, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Nyrstar NV
- **Operator:** Nyrstar Tennessee Mines, Strawberry Plains LLC
- **Mine:** [4000168](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4000168)
## Narrative

A group solely comprised of RWS contractors [MSHA Contractor ID B5045] was working in the mine. A pump sitting on a trailer was moved by RWS contractors by a telehandler, without notification to Nyrstar.  RWS hitched the trailer to their telehandler. RWS pulled the trailer up a ramp. The trailer hitch broke.  An individual RWS EE traveling on foot behind the trailer was struck

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