# FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
> MSHA accident `220122370037` · 08/16/2012 · Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
- **Accident type:** Struck by rolling or sliding object
- **Occupation:** Bull gang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Section foreman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 119
- **Mine experience:** 0.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.
- **Mine:** [4407129](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407129)
## Narrative

Employee was sitting on a plaster bucket on the in by end of the #4 entry block on the corner writing notes when a section of the coal rib dislodged without warning, sliding down the face of the rib and striking him in the back and knocking him to the mine floor. The rock measured 63"" long x 25"" wide and 17"" thick.

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