# FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220060440049` · 02/01/2006 · Bluffton Stone Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by rolling or sliding object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 2
- **Mine experience:** 5.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Brent  Gerken; Michael J  Gerken
- **Operator:** Bluffton Stone Company
- **Mine:** [3300017](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3300017)
## Narrative

The employee was stacking flagstone on a pallet when a piece of stone slid off an adjacent pallet and struck him in the back of the right knee causing him to twist and strain his knee. The injury caused swelling and pain.

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