# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220203250019` · 11/18/2020 · Cold Spring Granite Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Remove/position hydraulic jack
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 110
- **Mine experience:** 29.42 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patrick  Alexander
- **Operator:** Cold Spring Granite Company
- **Mine:** [4100070](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4100070)
## Narrative

Employee was trying to level granite block for sawing, using hydraulic jack. Thinner roughback that wasn't braced tipped over, struck employee, knocking EE down onto the saw frame, and then to the concrete, injuring EE's back, left shoulder and arm. Lumbar fracture, lost time injury.

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