# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220153510001` · 11/10/2015 · St. Marys Cement U.S. LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall to lower level, NEC
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** ELEVATORS,CAGES,SKIPS,ETC
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** SHOULDERS (COLLARBONE/CLAVICLE/SCAPULA)
- **Days lost:** 160
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS
- **Operator:** St. Marys Cement U.S. LLC
- **Mine:** [1100118](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1100118)
## Narrative

The preheater elevator doors had to be manually closed. EE usually used a step ladder to reach the mechanism above the doors safely. The ladder was not in the elevator. There were accessible stairs, but EE chose to climb the escape hatch steps to try & reach the mechanism. As he was operating the manual closure he slipped off the steps & fell inside the elevator floor

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