# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220022420031` · 08/16/2002 · Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 11.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** BPU Reynolds Inc
- **Operator:** Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4100906](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4100906)
## Narrative

EE WAS USING AN 8LB. SLEDGEHAMMER TO OPEN THE PUMP-OFF VALVE ON #54 PPT. AS HE WAS SWINGING THE HAMMER HANDLE STRUCK THE VALVE HANDLE. THIS DEVIATED THE SWING PATTERN. HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER WA S CAUGHT BETWEEN THE HAMMER HANDLE AND THE VALVE HANDLE. THIS CAUSED A LACERATION TO HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER THAT REQUIRED FOUR SUTURES TO CLOSE. NO LOST TIME OR RESTRICTIONS.

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