# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220051090017` · 04/14/2005 · Thunder Basin Coal Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.37 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ashland Inc
- **Operator:** Thunder Basin Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4800977](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4800977)
## Narrative

At the time of the incident employee was attaching a hoist cylinder to the blade of a CAT D-11 dozer. As the cylinder was being lowered into place, employees' left hand (left ring finger), which he was using to guide the cylinder, became pinched between the cylinder rod end and the hoist cylinder mount.

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