# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220083150058` · 11/01/2008 · S & G Excavating, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Grinding
- **Injury source:** ABRAS STONE,WHEEL GRINDER
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 4.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kenneth E  Steiner Jr
- **Operator:** S & G Excavating, Inc.
- **Mine:** [1201455](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1201455)
## Narrative

Employee was using an angle grinder with a wire brush to remove rust from a steel plate when his glove got caught in the wire wheel. The wheel pulled his left index finger into the wheel by the glove. No skin breaks but slight fracture in middle phalange.

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