# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220042800017` · 09/27/2004 · Yarrington Road Materials
## 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:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Edward R  Coleman; H  Coleman
- **Operator:** Yarrington Road Materials
- **Mine:** [4104126](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104126)
## Narrative

Driver had clot of dirt caught in the tail gate of his end dump trailer, he and the witness lifted the tail gate high enough for the dirt to fall out and the tail gate came down and caught the driver's hand between the bed of the trailer and the tail gate.

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