# FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
> MSHA accident `220060870007` · 03/24/2006 · Bowie Resources LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Longwall operator, Chock operator, Shear operator, Plow operator
- **Activity:** Handling explosives
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** LEG, NEC
- **Days lost:** 13
- **Mine experience:** 5.46 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** John C  Smith Jr
- **Operator:** Bowie Resources LLC
- **Mine:** [0504591](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/0504591)
## Narrative

The employee was helping to load explosives in a rock in the face conveyor when a piece of rock 2'thick 3' high and 10' long flushed off of the face and struck the employee.

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