# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220082660017` · 09/18/2008 · Martin Marietta North Texas Cement, LLC
## 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:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 17.31 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Texas Industries Inc
- **Operator:** Martin Marietta North Texas Cement, LLC
- **Mine:** [4100071](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4100071)
## Narrative

Employee was moving a heavy grinding head with a contractor. They stood it up on its side and the contractor spun it around. The employee still had his hand on it and when the head turned it pinched his finger between the head and the frame of a forklift causing the tip of his left pinky finger to be amputated.

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