# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220003530054` · 11/17/2000 · Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from ladders
- **Occupation:** Transit man, Surveyor/Transit worker
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** LADDERS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 37
- **Mine experience:** 0.03 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** El Paso Energy Corp
- **Operator:** Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc
- **Mine:** [4608751](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4608751)
## Narrative

3 FOOT ALUMINUM STEP LADDER WAS BEING USED TO REACH SPAD IN ROOF. LADDER WAS PLACED ON UNEVEN PAVEMENT AND FOLDED. EMPLOYEE GRABBED THE LADDER TO BALANCE HIMSELF. THE LADDER CONTINUED TO FOLD AND THE EMPLOYEE FELL ON TOP OF THE LADDER WITH FINGER IN A PINCH POINT CAUSING CRUSHING INJURY AND DISTAL FRACTURE OF HIS MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

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