# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070170017` · 10/14/2006 · Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
- **Mine:** [0301586](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0301586)
## Narrative

Employee had finished a repair on a piece of mobil equipment and was putting his tools away into his field service truck.  He was putting a puller rod back into it's protective PVC tube, The rod was sliding down into the tube and he put the end of thumb on the smooth rod and it pulled it into a pinch point and pinched off the tip of his right thumb.

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