# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220052550062` · 08/31/2005 · Mounds Production Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **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:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 12
- **Mine experience:** 13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Oil Dri Corporation Of America
- **Operator:** Mounds Production Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1102403](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1102403)
## Narrative

Employee was carrying a filter housing up a ladder. He propped the unit on the frame of the blower. Filter house slipped off the blower and caught his left middle finger between the blower and the filter housing. Employee tore his left middle fingernail and crushed the tip of his left middle finger.

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