# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220052870021` · 10/04/2005 · Twin Pines Coal Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 0.27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Five J's LLC
- **Operator:** Twin Pines Coal Company Inc
- **Mine:** [0103117](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0103117)
## Narrative

He was lifting a piece of steel. He place a chain on the plate and on a loader bucket. When he lifted the plate he reached under the plate to move a cross tie; then the chain slipped off the loader bucket. The plate dropped and caught his right thumb and index finger.

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