# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220092650039` · 09/12/2009 · Manalapan Mining Company Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 0.27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Benjamin R.  Bennett
- **Operator:** Manalapan Mining Company Inc
- **Mine:** [1504331](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/1504331)
## Narrative

The employee was changing rollers out on a conveyor belt in the prep plant when the chain fell from the I beam letting the roller and the chain fall catching the injured persons left hand between the roller and the electrical box.

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