# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220062480047` · 08/29/2006 · Covia Solutions Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 22.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** S C R-Sibelco Nv
- **Operator:** Covia Solutions Inc.
- **Mine:** [4700749](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4700749)
## Narrative

The employee was placing bags on the spouts of baggers #1 & #3 when the bag he was placing on Bagger #1 did not open properly & his hand slipped forward & contacted the exhaust end of the spout. With use, the spouts get worn with sand running through them & a sharp edge forms. It was this edge that the ee's left hand had contacted resulting in the cutting of the thumb.

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