# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220072850011` · 10/04/2007 · Intrepid Potash-New Mexico, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Welder
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** CROWBAR,PRY BAR
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** WRIST
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Hugh E  Harvey
- **Operator:** Intrepid Potash-New Mexico, LLC
- **Mine:** [2900170](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2900170)
## Narrative

While switching out a rope on a skip, the employee was working on the 3rd thimble.  There was mechanics wire tied between the rope and thimble.  While under pressure, the mechanics wire broke causing the the bar the employee was holding to smash him between the bar and other linkage fracturing his right wrist.

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