# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220102570003` · 09/09/2010 · Big Ridge Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Discontinued 1/31/2014.  Several other codes cover Scoop Car Operator
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Big Ridge Inc
- **Mine:** [1103054](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103054)
## Narrative

Employee stated he was relieving the left side bolter and had finished installing one bolt. He then was walking back to the controls to move the machine up, when a rock fell from between the bolts and struck him on the back of the hard hat and neck and slid off of him. Transported to ER where X-rays showed a fracture of the posterior spiny member at C-7 vertebrae.

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