# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220203180012` · 11/12/2020 · Bruening Rock Products Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Blaster, Shooter, Shotfirer, Explosive worker, Powder gang/monkey
- **Activity:** Handling explosives
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** CHEST (RIBS/BREAST BONE/CHEST ORGNS)
- **Days lost:** 32
- **Mine experience:** 5.38 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Greg  Bruening
- **Operator:** Bruening Rock Products Inc
- **Mine:** [1302217](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1302217)
## Narrative

Employee was cleaning out a lifter hole by hand when some rock sluffed off the face and struck them in the back.  Result was fractured ribs.

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