# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220031470039` · 05/15/2003 · The Doe Run Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Caging, Operate elevator
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 59
- **Mine experience:** 7.51 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Renco Group
- **Operator:** The Doe Run Company
- **Mine:** [2300457](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300457)
## Narrative

EE WAS IN A MAN-LIFT BASKET PLACING FENCING MATERIAL FOR PILLAR FILL. HE WAS USING HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPERATE CONTROLS WHILE HANDLING FENCE WITH HIS LEFT HAND. HIS RT THUMB WAS RESTING ON TOP O F CONTROL GUARD. AS HE RAISED THE BASKET, HIS RT THUMB WAS PINCHED BETWEEN BROW OF THE BACK SEVERING MOST OF THE LAST JOINT ON RT THUMB. THE BONE FROM TIP OF THUMB WAS SURGICALLY RE-ATTACHED.

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