# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220071620024` · 06/08/2007 · Bussen Quarries Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 30.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Riverstone Group
- **Operator:** Bussen Quarries Inc
- **Mine:** [2300027](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2300027)
## Narrative

Employee was helping remove a hoist cylinder from a 980G cat loader.  He was holding the eye of the push rod guiding the cylinder out.  When it cleared, it swung forward carrying him with it, knocking him into a support pipe holding the boom arm up.  When he let go of the rod eye, the middle and ring fingers of his right hand were cut below the end knuckles.

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