# FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
> MSHA accident `220100120006` · 01/02/2010 · Stillwater Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Section foreman, Bullgang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Drill face, Rib, Side, Down
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 26
- **Mine experience:** 11.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Stillwater Mining Company
- **Operator:** Stillwater Mining Company
- **Mine:** [2401490](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2401490)
## Narrative

Employee was changing the reamer bit on a jumbo steel, when some of the rock on the left upper face started to fall. a rock struck employee in the knee, then fell onto his left foot.  He went to medics on site, and then taken to ER Room for x-rays on foot. X-rays were negative, but he did recieve 4 sutures in the knee. He was given a release with restrictions.

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