# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220251470028` · 05/09/2025 · Prairie State Generating Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BRATTICE CURT,PLAS & CANV
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 34
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Prairie State Energy Campus Management Inc
- **Operator:** Prairie State Generating Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1103193](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103193)
## Narrative

After cutting bands on a stack of curtain boards outby U2, xc 108, supply entry 5, some boards fell on the employees leg, causing a strain and small abrasion to the outer side of their left knee.

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