# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220090960013` · 03/26/2009 · Buckingham Coal Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **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:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James F  Graham
- **Operator:** Buckingham Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [3304520](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3304520)
## Narrative

The continuous miner operator was positioning the mining machine to remove rock from the top of the miner, when he thinks he must have tripped falling down onto the remote control box causing the tail boom to swing and the rock to slide off on him.  The miner operator was not exactly clear on what occurred.

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