# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220003490008` · 12/06/2000 · Colored Slate Products Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** MINERAL ITEMS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 24
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Michael J  Tatko Jr
- **Operator:** Colored Slate Products Company
- **Mine:** [4300353](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4300353)
## Narrative

EE WAS PUSHING SLATE BLOCKS DOWN ROLLER CONVEYOR WHEN A COWORKER ATTEMPTED TO ASSIST HIM. COWORKER TURNED POWER ROLLERS ON TO ADVANCE BLOCKS INTO MILL OPERASTION. INJURED EE WRONGLY USED FREE SPINNING ROLLERS AS A MEANS TO STABILIZE HIMSELF TO PUSH BLOCKS DOWN CONVEYORS. HIS HAND WAS PINCHED BY A BLOCK ENTERING SAWING AREA.

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