# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220021960157` · 07/09/2002 · River Cement Company dba Buzzi Unicem USA
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 13
- **Mine experience:** 15.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Buzzi S p A
- **Operator:** River Cement Company dba Buzzi Unicem USA
- **Mine:** [2300188](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300188)
## Narrative

EE WAS ON HIS WAY TO UNPLUG SILO 21 WEIGTHFEEDER WHEN HE NOTICED SILO 11 WAS ALSO PLUGGED WITH A LUMP IN THE DISCHARGE CHUTE. HE GRABBED ANOTHER LUMP AND PROCEEDED TO TRY TO KNOCK IT THROUGH. THIS WORKED, HOWEVER THE LUMP THAT HE USED THEN BECAME LODGED BETWEEN THE CHUTE & THE WEIGTH BELT TRAPPING HIS FINGERS IN A PINCH POINT. AS THE BELT CONTINUED TO RUN & HIS FINGERS WERE CUT.

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