# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220050830007` · 03/10/2005 · Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CONVEYORS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Dyckerhoff & Heidelberger Zement Ag
- **Operator:** Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
- **Mine:** [3000585](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3000585)
## Narrative

The employee was helping to remove the 1935 drag chain.  Not realizing the chain was caught on a piece of angle iron, the employee looked into the opening on the west end of  the Polycom to see what the chain was catching on.  As the employee did this he leaned his hand on the chain and it came loose, striking his right thumb.

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