# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220101200029` · 04/25/2010 · Solar Sources Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Coal strip operator
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 1.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Felson  Bowman
- **Operator:** Solar Sources Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [1201732](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1201732)
## Narrative

Employee was climbing up the ladder on unit 1199 end dump he had set his lunch bucket on the cat walk his lunch bucket tipped over and dropped a Pepsi onto the ground, he climbed down and got his pepsi when he climbed back up he had mud on his hand and lost his grip on the hand rail falling to the ground. Hurting his knee, he fell about 20 feet.

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