# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220061170031` · 04/18/2006 · Bluffton Stone Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Brent  Gerken; Michael J  Gerken
- **Operator:** Bluffton Stone Company
- **Mine:** [3300017](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3300017)
## Narrative

EE was stacking flagstone off the conveyor belt when he picked up a piece of stone it split  in half, when EE reched to grab it he caught his finger between the stone and belt head on side of conveyor belt. When he took his glove off he had cuts on the top and bottom of his right index finger.

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