# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220070360049` · 01/27/2006 · Delta Asphalt of Arkansas Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Haul/Off road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber tire truck driver, Transportation truck driver
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 23
- **Mine experience:** 0.83 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Colas S A
- **Operator:** Delta Asphalt of Arkansas Inc
- **Mine:** [0301894](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0301894)
## Narrative

Employee was positioning a piece of steel plate inside of a rock box so that it could be welded into place, when it slipped and mashed his right thumb.

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