# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220052000012` · 07/12/2005 · Imerys Talc Incorporated
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PALLETS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 25.13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Rio Tinto Group
- **Operator:** Imerys Talc Incorporated
- **Mine:** [2400162](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2400162)
## Narrative

The employee was lifting and moving a wood pallet, which had a 50lb blower on it, when it slipped.  The right middle finger of employee was caught in between two wood pallets.  The employee sustained a (R) long finger crush injury with suturable lacerationand open distal phalanz fracture.

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