# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220240430013` · 01/31/2024 ·  Coal-Mac LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Fall onto or against objects
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 24
- **Mine experience:** 13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** John Mitch Potter
- **Operator:**  Coal-Mac LLC
- **Mine:** [4608984](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4608984)
## Narrative

Employee was removing Struts on a rock truck. The left strut had been removed and EE was cutting the bottom pin out from the right Strut. The right strut moved when they cut through the pin. They stepped back and tripped over the new struts laying on the ground behind them. They landed on the second strut cracking a rib and vertebra. 

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