# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220041100035` · 04/05/2004 · Bentonite Performance Minerals LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Mill equipment
- **Injury source:** MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 7.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Halliburton Company
- **Operator:** Bentonite Performance Minerals LLC
- **Mine:** [4801405](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4801405)
## Narrative

Ee had put 1/2"" pins in tablet machine. He started it without guards in place. He thought there was a loose part & reached his rt hand into operating machine to see if it was loose. The moving machine caught his hand. He was taken to local dr, & was sent to Billings MT. Drs removed his little finger, index finger at first knuckle, & broke his middle finger.

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