# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220090410020` · 02/05/2009 · Pontchartrain Material Corporation, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BLDG,STRUCT,BOAT,RAFT,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** George  Douglass Jr
- **Operator:** Pontchartrain Material Corporation, LLC
- **Mine:** [1601464](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1601464)
## Narrative

Employee was attempting to free a cable that was jammed in a winch.  When the cable suddenly came free, the employee lost his footing and fell, striking right shoulder on the deck of the sand dredge.

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