# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220151130025` · 09/26/2014 · Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company 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, Drilling
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 78
- **Mine experience:** 1.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Operator:** Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [3610045](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3610045)
## Narrative

Employee was roof bolting on the continuous miner. While reaching out with his right arm to remove a drill steel from the bolter chuck a piece of rock fell from the mine roof striking him on the upper back and right shoulder. On April 15, 2015 the employee had surgery to repair the bursal sided rotator cuff in his right shoulder.

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