# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220052300069` · 08/02/2005 · Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Roof bolter helper, Rock bolter helper, Pinner helper
- **Activity:** Roof bolter, Drilling
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
- **Mine:** [4407123](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407123)
## Narrative

Employee was installing a 5' resin bolt. As he went to raise the drill boom he inadvertently hit the lever to the steel clamps that hold the dril steel, catching his right middle finger, causing a laceration that required stitches.

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