# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220042860141` · 10/11/2004 · Newmont USA Limited
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from ladders
- **Occupation:** Tipple/Top lander/Skip dumper operator, Binman, Topman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** WRIST
- **Days lost:** 4
- **Mine experience:** 1.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Newmont Corporation
- **Operator:** Newmont USA Limited
- **Mine:** [2602512](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2602512)
## Narrative

EE was unloading a blowpipe from the muck bucket. The pipe was caught up in his jacket causing him to fall off the ladder backwards and sideways a total of four feet onto the ground. He stuck out his arm and fell onto it, pinching it in between the rail, himself and the blowpipe.

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