# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220121950047` · 07/08/2012 · Performance Coal Company, 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:** Rodman, Surveyor/Transit helper
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** KNEE/PATELLA
- **Days lost:** 53
- **Mine experience:** 0.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Performance Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4603430](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4603430)
## Narrative

Employee was walking to the bathhouse to get ready for work and stepped in a hole in the grass between building and parking lot. Employee fell and was helped to his feet and when he tried to walk his right knee buckled and he fell again.

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