# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220240680030` · 02/27/2024 · New Frontier Materials Operations Alpha, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** RWNIH-OP Holdings LLC; PEPI Capital, L.P.; 42 North Resources Partners I
- **Operator:** New Frontier Materials Operations Alpha, LLC
- **Mine:** [2302469](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2302469)
## Narrative

Employee was standing on stationary barge helping to take slack out of a line, to tie off a barge. The tension built causing the line to come off the timber head striking the employee in the left leg near the knee.

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