# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220132280047` · 07/31/2013 · Brody Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from piled material
- **Occupation:** Examiner, Fire boss, Pre-shift examiner, Mine examiner
- **Activity:** Climb in piled material
- **Injury source:** MINE FLOOR,BOTTOM,FOOTWAL
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 175
- **Mine experience:** 3.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Brody Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [4609086](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609086)
## Narrative

Employee stated that he was holding timbers that were being cut by two other employees by sitting on top of the timbers. As he dismounted the stack of timbers, he got his foot caught in the bindings that hold the timbers together and fell to the ground. Medical received on 08/15/2013 diagnosed the employee with multiple sprains/strains.

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