# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220073130005` · 10/31/2007 · Martin Marietta Materials, 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:** Welder (shop)
- **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:** 7
- **Mine experience:** 0.63 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
- **Mine:** [3401285](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3401285)
## Narrative

Employee assisting another employee un-hitching an air compressor on a trailer from the maintenance truck.  IW was pressing down on the latch to release the trailer from the ball, when the trailer rolled, causing his L index finger to be smashed between a steel plate on the truck above the hitch and the trailer hitch.  IW L index finger received a serious avulsion.

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