# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220121950007` · 07/08/2012 · Hopedale Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FACE,NEC
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.46 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Rhino Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Hopedale Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [3300968](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3300968)
## Narrative

EE just finished bolting a cut when he went to set down on the bolter he heard a cracking sound as he looked up a stone fell from the roof and hit him in the face, which caused a laceration to the bridge of his nose and to the left cheek requiring 2 stitches in each cut.

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