# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070260001` · 01/16/2007 · Walnut Creek Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 17.35 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kiewit Peter Sons' Inc
- **Operator:** Walnut Creek Mining Company
- **Mine:** [4103428](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4103428)
## Narrative

An employee was attaching a battery compartment door on a Cat 525 log skidder when the door fell slightly and pinched the employee's right index finger causing lacerations requiring 19 stitches, broke the tip of his finger and severed a tendon.

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