# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220140520002` · 02/19/2014 · Sidney Coal Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
- **Occupation:** Steel worker, Iron metal worker, Iron worker
- **Activity:** Welding or cutting
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** MULTIPLE PARTS (MORE THAN ONE MAJOR)
- **Days lost:** 342
- **Mine experience:** 0.12 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Sidney Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1509724](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1509724)
## Narrative

EE was welding angle braces to the load out conveyor truss due to structural deficiencies. He was working from a temporary platform. EE was wearing a harness & had 2 lanyards attached to the structure. For an unknown reason, he unharnessed the lanyard from his harness & slipped from the platform & fell approx. 25' to the ground below fracturing his leg, pelvis & a vertebrae.

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