# STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
> MSHA accident `220061510049` · 05/17/2006 · Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Bull gang,  Parts runner, Roustabout, Roof trimmer/scaler
- **Activity:** Escaping a hazard
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4406975](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406975)
## Narrative

Employee was preparing to drill bolt hole, put drill steel against top of a piece of rock. Rock fell, he jumped backwards out of way of rock, foot stepped on a slick rock lying on bottom, foot slipped twisting his lower back. Started missing work on 5/20/06.

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