# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220020840155` · 03/19/2002 · Wendling Quarries Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** CHUTE & SLIDE-CONVYR HOPR
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 10
- **Mine experience:** 6.55 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Manaco Corporation
- **Operator:** Wendling Quarries Inc
- **Mine:** [1302074](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1302074)
## Narrative

WORKER STRUCK THE DOOR WITH THE HANDLE END OF A LARGE CRESCENT WRENCH. AFTER STRIKING THE DOOR, THE WRENCH TRAVELED DOWN THE CHUTE FOLLOWING THE ANGLE. UPON REACHING THE BELT, THE WRENCH HANDL E WAS DRAWN UNDER THE CHAIN AND PULLED INWARD. PINNED HIS HAND AGAINST THE GUARD OVER TAIL PULLEY, IT PINCHED AND PULLED OFF ONE HALF OF THE INDEX FINGER, ALSO A THUMB LACERATION.

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