# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220092230045` · 08/09/2009 · Highland Mining Company 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:** Discontinued 1/31/2014.  Several other codes cover Scoop Car Operator
- **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:** 9
- **Mine experience:** 6.6 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1502709](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502709)
## Narrative

Employee Reported: He and 3 co-workers were assembling steel arches. When placing the arch across a conveyor belt, the victim's right middle finger was caught between the arch and the steel belt frame. The extent of injury was an amputation of the tip of the finger.

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