# FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
> MSHA accident `220230790005` · 03/09/2023 · Ferroglobe USA Mining, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** CAVING ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** BACK (MUSCLES/SPINE/S-CORD/TAILBONE)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.42 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ferroglobe PLC
- **Operator:** Ferroglobe USA Mining, LLC
- **Mine:** [1518466](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1518466)
## Narrative

A miner was bolting when a piece of draw rock fell between the bolts and the rib hitting EE in the back and knocking EE into the controls. EE was taken to the ER where EE was x-rayed. No broken bones were found. EE later went to a PA that diagnosed EE with a ""closed fracture of the twelfth thoracic vertebra"". They put EE on ""restricted duty"".

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