# STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
> MSHA accident `220071760008` · 06/09/2007 · Westmoreland Rosebud Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** LOOSE DIRT AND MUD
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 31
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Westmoreland Coal Company
- **Operator:** Westmoreland Rosebud Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [2401747](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2401747)
## Narrative

Employee was getting out of a man basket and he stepped onto a clod of dirt.  As he did this he twisted his right knee.  He was taken to a physician for treatment at the Colstrip Medical center.  He came back to work the following shift but was unable to make his scheduled shift on June 12, 2007.

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