# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220061720001` · 06/15/2006 · Finger Lakes Stone Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 55
- **Mine experience:** 4.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James F  Hobart; Richard G  Hobart
- **Operator:** Finger Lakes Stone Company Inc
- **Mine:** [3000042](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3000042)
## Narrative

Employee was discarding scrap stone into a wastebin and pinched his finger between the steel tub and a piece of stone.  He crushed his knuckle, had a compound fracture and severed the tendon in the little finger of his left hand. The little finger was amputated to the second joint.

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