# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220093410012` · 12/03/2009 · Black Hills Bentonite
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** HIPS (PELVIS/ORGANS/KIDNEYS/BUTTOCKS)
- **Days lost:** 109
- **Mine experience:** 14.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Thomas A  Thorson
- **Operator:** Black Hills Bentonite
- **Mine:** [4800617](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800617)
## Narrative

EE stopped wheel loader to climb out and move a piece of grizzly screen that had fallen from hopper.  Climbing down steps and thinking he was on the bottom step when, in fact, he was on the second step three feet above the ground, he let go of side-rails and fell on left hip on hard frozen ground - breaking the hip as determined at the hospital that he was ambulanced to.

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