# SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
> MSHA accident `220260350003` · 01/27/2026 · Luminant Mining Company LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
- **Accident type:** Fall from machine
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** GROUND
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** NECK
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Vistra Energy
- **Operator:** Luminant Mining Company LLC 
- **Mine:** [4104586](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4104586)
## Narrative

Contract employee was leaving the house of the dragline via the staircase.  Once EE reached the bottom step, EE lost EE's balance and began to fall to the dragline shoe below (25 inches).  EE's momentum carried EE forward, where EE fell off the dragline shoe to the ground below (51 inches). The impact to the ground resulted in 2 fractured vertebrae and lacerations to EE's face.

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