# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220172010004` · 07/10/2017 · Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Cleanup man, Cleanup worker
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 243
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Mosaic Company
- **Operator:** Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC
- **Mine:** [0801117](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0801117)
## Narrative

Employee ascended the stairs on a Komatsu500 loader. Employee was cleaning the loader. Employee PPE:boots,hi-vis,earplugs,hardhat,goggles,textured nitrile gloves. Task required a different implement. Employee said their goggles fogged when they reached for the handrails to descend,causing them to miss the rails and fall,resulting in broken vertebra,L5 and T12 rupture.

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