# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220152510039` · 08/21/2015 · Webster County Coal LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 72
- **Mine experience:** 4.94 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Webster County Coal LLC
- **Mine:** [1502132](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502132)
## Narrative

Employee was operating a continuous miner and had completed the first lift and was setting over to start the second lift.  As he was tramming the continuous miner out of the lift, a piece of loose roof fell from between the mesh and the rib, striking him in the back.  He began missing time on 8-24-15. 

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