# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220073620016` · 12/27/2007 · AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Continuous miner operator, Coal mole operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.79 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** AMFIRE Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [3609005](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3609005)
## Narrative

Employee and co-workers were attempting to raise the belt drive spill-board into place. The piece of heavy metal was too heavy to hold and started to slip from the worker's grasp. The injured worker had his hand caught between the spill-board and the belt rope causing a laceration and a fracture to the finger tip of his right hand.

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