# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220121360024` · 05/07/2012 · Hecla Limited
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** BLOCKING
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Hecla Mining Company
- **Operator:** Hecla Limited
- **Mine:** [1000088](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1000088)
## Narrative

Employee drove CAT 950H loader to staging area at the Pond 4 site.  He parked the machine at the staging area.  He picked up the wheel chocks from the storage area on the loader and threw them to the ground.  He then proceeded to begin climbing down the ladder not maintaining the required 3 points of contact. Employee fell from the ladder and landed on wheel chocks.

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