# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220043510030` · 12/15/2004 · Shumaker Trucking & Excavating Contractors Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from ladders
- **Occupation:** Crane operator, Mobile equipment operator (MEO), Dragline operator, Dropball operator, Rigger
- **Activity:** Climb scaffolds, Ladders
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** C  Eugene  Shumaker
- **Operator:** Shumaker Trucking & Excavating Contractors Inc
- **Mine:** [2401915](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2401915)
## Narrative

The miner was climbing down a fixed ladder on a mobile screening plant, when he misplaced footing on the rung, this caused him to lose his hand holds and fall approx 4 ft backwards and twist his right knee. He stated the rung was not icy and that he just misstepped. He had been assisting in screen changing.

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