# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220062050017` · 07/20/2006 · Illinois Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** MULTIPLE INJURIES
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Eagle Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Illinois Cement Company
- **Mine:** [1100003](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1100003)
## Narrative

Employee was picking up a brick off of a stack of bricks while turning with brick in his Rt. hand he struck the forktruck lift bars causing a laceration/contusion on the tip of his thumb.  He was taken to hospital and received five (5) stiches in his thumb.  He did not miss work.

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