# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220222300011` · 08/10/2022 · Tilden Mining Company L C
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Painter
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** FLOOR,WALKING SURF-NOT UG
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 127
- **Mine experience:** 22 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
- **Operator:** Tilden Mining Company L C
- **Mine:** [2000422](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/2000422)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning inside t-1 #4 vacuum header line, when a plug of iron ore concentrate and water released from the pipe, forcing the material and the employee out of the pipe.  The employee was ejected about 15' out of the pipe, while falling 6' vertically to the concrete floor below, resulting in fractures to the left arm, right femur, and pelvis.

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