# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220061800059` · 06/21/2006 · Asbury Advanced Materials
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BAGS
- **Nature of injury:** DISLOCATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Asbury Carbons Inc
- **Operator:** Asbury Advanced Materials
- **Mine:** [3607028](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3607028)
## Narrative

Employee was stacking 50# bags of pulverized carbon. When he tried to push a corner of a bag in to straighten the bag his thumb got caught on the bag and dislocated his thumb. He told his shift foreman that he is double jointed. This may have contributed to the injury.

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