# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220260210002` · 12/23/2025 · Granbury Mine, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
- **Occupation:** Lab Technician
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CONTAINERS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** HERNIA;RUPTURE
- **Body part:** ABDOMEN/INTERNAL ORGANS
- **Days lost:** 8
- **Mine experience:** 3.13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ares Capital Corporation; AC American Fixed Income IV L.P.; AG Energy Fu
- **Operator:** Granbury Mine, LLC
- **Mine:** [4104430](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104430)
## Narrative

Employee was discarding sand samples into a 5 gallon bucket for disposal back into a sand pile. The employee was in the process of throwing the discarded sand back into the trash pile when they felt a pop in their leg area. Employee was sent to clinic for eval. First aid pulled muscle was diagnosed. Went back 1/14/26 for eval and has hernia. 

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