# STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
> MSHA accident `220050530085` · 02/07/2005 · Specialty Minerals Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** THIGH/FEMUR
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Minerals Technologies Inc
- **Operator:** Specialty Minerals Inc
- **Mine:** [0600019](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0600019)
## Narrative

EMPLOYEE STEPPING OUT OF VOLVO L-150 LOADER AT THE SECONDARY CRUSHER & DRYER FEED HOPPER STOCKPILE ONTO CRUSHED LIMESTONE. AT THIS TIME HE TWISTED HIS RT. ANKLE & WHEN HE TRIED TO STABILIZE HIMSELF FROM FALLING HE PUT WEIGHT ON HIS LT. LEG. HE THEN FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT QUADRICEP.

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