# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220240020009` · 12/27/2023 · Northern Star (Pogo) LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck against a moving object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Front-end loader
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 35
- **Mine experience:** 2.21 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Northern Star Resources Ltd
- **Operator:** Northern Star (Pogo) LLC
- **Mine:** [5001642](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/5001642)
## Narrative

Operator was driving down the road in a surface loader, when the operator continued to warm the hydraulic oil by raising and lowering the boom and curling the bucket. While doing this the cold hydraulics responded slowly and the bucket kept dumping which drove the teeth of the bucket into the road causing the loader to come to a complete stop. Operator was wearing a seatbelt.

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