# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220162770034` · 09/28/2016 · Tilcon Connecticut Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall onto or against objects
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Walking, Running
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.12 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Tilcon Connecticut Inc.
- **Mine:** [0600003](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0600003)
## Narrative

Employee was walking and holding a pipe union in left hand. Employee stopped and headed back to their truck to grab a wire brush when they tripped causing them to fall forward to their hands and knees. The two pieces of the pipe union the employee was holding cut their finger when they fell. 

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