# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220050590017` · 02/22/2005 · Solvay Chemicals,  Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter, Rock bolter,  Pinner, Mobile roof support operator (MRS)
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, NEC
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 93
- **Mine experience:** 13.17 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Solvay S A
- **Operator:** Solvay Chemicals,  Inc
- **Mine:** [4801295](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4801295)
## Narrative

Employee was raising the floor on a Fletcher roof bolter when he got the tip of his thumb caught in a gate.  The gate severed the tip of the thumb off.  He was taken to the emergency room and flown to Salt Lake City to try and reattach the finger.  They were unable to reattach it.

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