# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220241550001` · 05/30/2024 · Mountaineer Mining Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Haulage or Dump truck
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** UPPER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Robert George  Koval
- **Operator:** Mountaineer Mining Corporation
- **Mine:** [3610341](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3610341)
## Narrative

Driver drifted forward to make more room for another truck loading, leaned on driver's door to realize it wasn't latched. Driver fell out of truck without applying parking brakes, then the truck ran away down the hill to hit a berm and land in a run off ditch. Driver has no major injuries after going to hospital. Truck towed back to our terminal to perform repairs on truck/trailer.

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