# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220152870008` · 10/10/2015 · Alpha Coal West, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from ladders
- **Occupation:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Climb scaffolds, Ladders
- **Injury source:** SURFACE MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** DISLOCATION
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 137
- **Mine experience:** 7.29 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Alpha Coal West, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4800732](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800732)
## Narrative

Employee was climbing down from a ladder that was used to gain access to the top of a shovel bucket job.  As he descended the ladder, it slipped out from underneath him.  As he was falling he reached out and grabbed onto the shovel latch bar to catch himself from falling resulting in a dislocated left shoulder.

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