# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220090270026` · 11/29/2008 · Thunder Basin Coal Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Quality control technician, Laboratory technician, Laboratory assistant
- **Activity:** Getting on or off equipment
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FOOT(NOT ANKLE/TOE)/TARSUS/METATARSUS
- **Days lost:** 28
- **Mine experience:** 0.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Arch Resources Inc
- **Operator:** Thunder Basin Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4800977](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4800977)
## Narrative

Elevated position (appr. three feet from ground)  Injury jumped from the propel motor on a P&H 495 HR Shovel to retrieve a dropped wrench. He landed with his right heel on the track. His heel was fractured on impact. Swelling and bruising of tendons was associated as well.

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