# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220041840024` · 04/16/2004 · Ash Grove Aggregates Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Operator:** Ash Grove Aggregates Inc
- **Mine:** [2301928](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2301928)
## Narrative

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER INTO THE LOADER, SLIPPED AND FELL, LANDING ON HIS LEFT LEG CAUSING STRAIN TO HIS BACK AND LEFT BUTTOCK. HE WAS EXAMINED, TREATED WITH MEDICATION AND RETURNED TO WORK WITH NO RESTRICTIONS. HE RETURNED AFTER A FEW WEEKS COMPLAINING IT WAS NOT COMPLETELY HEALED. AN MRI AND EPIDURAL STERIOD INJECTION WAS GIVEN ON 5/4 AND ANOTHER INJECTION ON 5/24/04.

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