# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220250630012` · 02/25/2025 · Luminant Mining Company LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion in lifting objects
- **Occupation:** Crane operator, Mobile equipment operator (MEO), Dragline operator, Dropball operator, Rigger
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** WHEEL-FROM CAR OR TRUCK
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** UPPER ARM/HUMERUS
- **Days lost:** 40
- **Mine experience:** 3.48 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Vistra Energy
- **Operator:** Luminant Mining Company LLC 
- **Mine:** [4104586](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4104586)
## Narrative

Equipment operator got off the piece of equipment to move a tractor pan wheel out of the roadway that had come off the pan, and in the process of lifting the wheel, the employee felt and heard a pop in their left shoulder.  The employee was taken to an occupational medical clinic in College Station, Texas and diagnosed with a torn bicep muscle.  

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