# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220260350055` · 01/29/2026 · Buchanan Minerals, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Mantrip
- **Injury source:** BACK,MINE ROOF,HNGNG WALL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 18
- **Mine experience:** 7.75 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Coronado Coal LLC
- **Operator:** Buchanan Minerals, LLC
- **Mine:** [4404856](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4404856)
## Narrative

A Maintenance Foreman and a passenger was in the process of traveling from 9 Vent bottom to 17 East section to work on high voltage power line. While in the second block light of the 5 North back track, at crosscut #44  it is believed that the injured employee's cap light struck a low spot on the mine roof (57 inches) causing trauma to their neck and vertebrae.

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