# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220021050065` · 04/03/2002 · Eastern Associated Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall onto or against objects
- **Occupation:** Supply man, Nipper
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** STD G RAIL CR,MTR-SURF EQ
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 72
- **Mine experience:** 30.03 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Eastern Associated Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [4601271](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4601271)
## Narrative

EE STATED THAT HE WAS A BRAKEMAN ON A LOCOMOTIVE BEING OPERATED BY COWORKER. THE LOCOMOTIVE HAD COUPLED TO A TRACK MOUNTED ROCK DUSTER. BOTH MEN FAILED TO REMOVE THE SAFETY CHAIN FROM THE DUST ER. WHEN THE SLACK RAN OUT OF THE CHAIN, THE LOCOMOTIVE CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP. THE EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF DISMOUNTING BEFORE THE LOCOMOTIVE STOPPED. HE STRUCK HIS ARM AGAINST THE LOCOMOTIVE

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