# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220231840028` · 06/23/2023 · Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Groundman, Yardman
- **Activity:** Fork lift
- **Injury source:** FORKLIFTS,STACKERS,TRCTR
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HEAD,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 19.83 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
- **Mine:** [4609028](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609028)
## Narrative

Employee was operating the fork truck in the outside yard. As the employee was raising the forks up, with no load, the keeper and one of the mast chains broke causing the forks to drop to the ground. In doing so, something knocked the front windshield out, striking the employee in the head. What struck the employee is unknown. Employee received a laceration requiring 8 staples.

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