# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220000270031` · 01/17/2000 · Ash Grove Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Transit man, Surveyor/Transit worker
- **Activity:** Other, NEC
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** ELBOW
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.03 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Operator:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Mine:** [1400034](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/1400034)
## Narrative

EE ALLEGES HE INJURED HIS LEFT ELBOW WHEN PICKING UP A SURVEY INSTRUMENT (TOTAL STATION) OFF THE GROUND AND SLINGING THE STATION CONTAINER STRAP OVER HIS LEFT SHOULDER. HE STATES HE FELT, AND HEARD, A POPPING SOUND IN HIS ELBOW WHEN HE WENT TO SLING THE STRAP OVER HIS SHOULDER TO CARRY THE INSTRUMENT TO THE NEXT SURVEY LOCATION. TOTAL STATION WEIGHT APPROX. 12 POUNDS.

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