# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220073620018` · 12/19/2007 · The Doe Run Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Bar down, Includes scaling
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** UPPER EXTREMITIES, MULTIPLE
- **Days lost:** 80
- **Mine experience:** 1.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Renco Group
- **Operator:** The Doe Run Company
- **Mine:** [2300409](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300409)
## Narrative

While in the elevated basket of an Elliot truck, two miners were hand scaling, while mining one piece of rock another piece broke loose and came down the bar and struck miner on the left arm, causing a serious laceration to the left wrist and forearm.  Forearm required surgical repair.

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