# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220031880136` · 06/21/2003 · Porters' Sand & Gravel
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by flying object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ralph E  Porter
- **Operator:** Porters' Sand & Gravel
- **Mine:** [3002409](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3002409)
## Narrative

EE CLAIMS WHILE HE WAS SPLICING CONVEYOR BELT ON #6, THE MATERIAL LET LOOSE FASTER THAN HE WAS AND CAUGHT HIS SMALL FINGER KNUCKLE ON HIS RIGHT HAND WHEN THE BELTING & THE WOODEN BLOCK FLEW BACK AT HIM, TEARING THE SKIN OPEN ON THE KNUCKLE NEEDING STITCHES TO CLOSE IT.

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