# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220020280098` · 01/21/2002 · Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall onto or against objects
- **Occupation:** Scoop car/Scooptram operator, Load/Haul/Dump (LHD) operator, Teletram operator
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** MINE JEEP,KERSEY,JITNEY
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** LOWER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE PARTS
- **Days lost:** 7
- **Mine experience:** 9.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4607908](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4607908)
## Narrative

EE STATED THAT HE WAS CHANGING BATTERIES ON THE NO. 13 SCOOP. HE STATED THAT HE HAD UNJOOKED THE JUMPER CABLES AND INSEERTED THE SCOOP POWER CABLE INTO THE CHARGED BATTERY RECEPTACLE, WHEN HE HEARD AN ARC FROM THE SCOOP CABLE. AS HE ATTEMPTED TO UNPLUG THE CABLE FROM THE BATTERY HE SLIPPED AND FELL STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG AGAINST THE FRAME OF THE SCOOP AND SPRAINING HIS LEFT ANKLE.

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