# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220151250035` · 04/29/2015 · Applied Minerals, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Bar down, Includes scaling
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CONCUSSION-BRAIN,CEREBRAL
- **Body part:** BRAIN
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.48 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Andre  Zeitoun
- **Operator:** Applied Minerals, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4202383](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4202383)
## Narrative

Employee was chipping material when he was hit in the back of the neck with a slab. The slab was approximately 1 ft in diameter.

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