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HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

220051570078 · 05/17/2005 · Specialty Minerals Inc

Details

Degree of injury
NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Classification
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Accident type
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Occupation
Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
Activity
Hand tools (not powered)
Injury source
HAND TOOLS,NONPOWERED,NEC
Nature of injury
CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
Body part
FINGER(S)/THUMB
Days lost
0
Mine experience
17.35 years

Operator

Controller (parent)
Minerals Technologies Inc
Operator
Specialty Minerals Inc
Mine
0600019

Narrative

While trying to open a jammed screen gate with a come-along, employee applied force and the gate sprang open and smashed finger between come-along handle and building brae. (Reportable due to draining fluid from under fingernail.)

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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