# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220050730056` · 03/08/2005 · Highland Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Set or remove brattice
- **Injury source:** MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 67
- **Mine experience:** 0.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1502709](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502709)
## Narrative

EE reported: in the process of moving section back up curtain, the previously hung curtains needed to be taken down. Instead of using a tool to loosen the curtain, he was jerking on the curtain. He lost his grip and fell to the mine floor. His abdomen struck a rutted area in the mine floor.

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