# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220071060029` · 04/09/2007 · Riverside Cement Co
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Ledgeman/hand, Quarry man
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Texas Industries Inc
- **Operator:** Riverside Cement Co
- **Mine:** [0400011](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0400011)
## Narrative

Employee was moving a steel beam manually with his hands.  The beam shifted and slid onto another beam pinching his left pinky.  The resulting injury was a 1/2"" amputation.

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