# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220072750056` · 09/19/2007 · Lone Mountain Processing LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** NOSE/NASAL PASSAGES/SINUS/SMELL
- **Days lost:** 4
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Lone Mountain Processing LLC
- **Mine:** [1518647](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1518647)
## Narrative

As EE was operating the continuous miner, a piece of rock hit him on the front of his hard hat, pushing it down into his face. Either the bill of the hard hat or the rock hit his nose, causing his nose to be fractured. The EE does not know if the rock came from the roof or rib. He is scheduled to have surgery on 10/3/07.

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