# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220103120001` · 10/27/2010 · Banner Blue Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 5
- **Mine experience:** 4 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4407046](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407046)
## Narrative

Employee was helping install an air lock door approximately one break inside the mine. They had scaled the top. Later on a piece of rock 10""WX10""LX3"" thick fell and hit him on the back as he was bent over.

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