# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220172140012` · 07/27/2017 · Knight Hawk Coal, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Continuous miner
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 92
- **Mine experience:** 3.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Coal Inc.; Franklin D.  Robertson; James O.  Bunn
- **Operator:** Knight Hawk Coal, LLC
- **Mine:** [1103147](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103147)
## Narrative

Employee was filling out pre-op/dust parameter sheet when a rock fell out between the bolts and struck ee on the head, shoulders, and/or back. The miner was not running at the time of the accident. EE received a broken nose, and 3 fractured vertebrae. The Accident Hotline was called on 7-27-17, to report on this accident to abate citation # 9104928, Issued on 7-27-17.

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