# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220051150072` · 04/20/2005 · Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC
## 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:** Discontinued 1/31/2014.  Several other codes cover Scoop Car Operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** UNDERGRD MINING MACHINES
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 157
- **Mine experience:** 12.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Operator:** Pine Ridge Coal Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4607908](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4607908)
## Narrative

EE WAS HELPING ON THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND AS HE ATTEMPTED TO HOOK THE CABLE ROPE ONTO THE CABLE POST/HOOK, HE PLACED HIS RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE STOP BLOCK OF THE MINER HEAD AND THE PAN OF THE MINER.  AT THE SAME TIME THE MINER OPERATOR LOWERED THE MINER HEAD, RESULTING IN EE'S RIGHT LITTLE FINGER BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN THE STOP BLOCK AND THE PAN OF THE MINER.

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