# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220260300022` · 01/20/2026 · Silica Services Mining, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Hand load, Hand shoveling
- **Injury source:** SAND,GRAVEL,SHELL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Silica Services Holdings, LLC
- **Operator:** Silica Services Mining, LLC
- **Mine:** [0203270](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0203270)
## Narrative

Employee was shoveling sand when they bent down to get more sand with shovel, they twisted their back and continued until it worsened.

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