# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220082250081` · 08/04/2008 · Sterling Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Ledgeman/hand, Quarry man
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, Inserting bolt
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** MOUTH/LIP/TEETH/TONGUE/THROAT/TASTE
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** J K  Berscht; Kenneth  Rux
- **Operator:** Sterling Mining Company
- **Mine:** [1000089](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1000089)
## Narrative

The employee was installing rock bolts in the back with a jackleg drill. After collaring a hole the EE briefly looked away. When he looked back, a rock had come loose and it bounced off the machine hitting the employee in the upper lip. The result was cut lip that required sutures and a chipped tooth.

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