# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220063050011` · 10/25/2006 · White Rock Quarries
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 105
- **Mine experience:** 2.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Vecellio Group Inc
- **Operator:** White Rock Quarries
- **Mine:** [0801058](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0801058)
## Narrative

Drill helper put his hand between kelly bar and the steel tube cap which is used to hold the tube down while the outer kelly bar is being pulled out of the ground. His arm was caught and pulled down iunto the borehole. The drill bar slipped on top of driller's hand. EE had surgery and lost right index finger, other broken fingers and lacerations to forearm.

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