# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220231280019` · 04/30/2023 · Stillwater Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** FORKLIFTS,STACKERS,TRCTR
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** JAW INCLUDE CHIN
- **Days lost:** 20
- **Mine experience:** 12.88 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Sibanye Stillwater Limited
- **Operator:** Stillwater Mining Company
- **Mine:** [2401879](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/2401879)
## Narrative

Utilizing a forklift around rail flat, one fork was inadvertently under a 1"" lip of the flat.  The uninjured employee applied lift to the forklift at the same time the injured employee reached across the forks.  The fork under the lip slipped off springing upwards, contacting the employee in the chin causing a laceration and a broken mandible.

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