# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220023610032` · 12/19/2002 · Ash Grove Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.26 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Operator:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Mine:** [1400034](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1400034)
## Narrative

EE & CREW WERE SHAKING ( SEPARATING) OUT IRON (STEEL BEAMS) & ROLLING OVER BEAMS ON GROUND TO CHECK PIECE MARKS. AS EE ROLLED ONE BEAM, ANOTHER BEAM NEXT TO THE FIRST, ROLLED OVER PINCHING (MA SHING) HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE FLANGES OF THE TWO BEAMS BREAKING HIS THUMB.

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