# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220112510030` · 08/07/2011 · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall to the walkway or working surface
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** FLOOR,WALKING SURF-NOT UG
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** ELBOW
- **Days lost:** 70
- **Mine experience:** 2.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
- **Mine:** [1102546](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1102546)
## Narrative

Employee was washing a refuse feed box in the prep plant. He stepped from a concrete floor down to a metal floor approximately 3 inches lower. He slipped and fell striking his left elbow on the floor. He continued to work up until September 1 when he was taken off for surgery to repair a tendon in his left elbow.

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