# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220151050012` · 04/14/2015 · Knight Hawk Coal, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **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:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** 18
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Coal Inc.; Franklin D.  Robertson; James O.  Bunn
- **Operator:** Knight Hawk Coal, LLC
- **Mine:** [1103147](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103147)
## Narrative

Employee was roof bolting. He walked to the side of the bolter, when a rock 26""long x 8"" wide x 5"" thick fell from the roof striking him in the back of the head/ neck.

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