# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220100570006` · 02/15/2010 · Quality Aggregates Inc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** ABRAS STONE,WHEEL GRINDER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 10.54 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Joseph  Aloe
- **Operator:** Quality Aggregates Inc
- **Mine:** [3608093](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3608093)
## Narrative

The employee was using a grinder with a cut-off wheel, to cut a piece of allthread.  The employee had a nut on the allthread to use as a guide and the allthread was secured in a vise.  The employee had one hand on the grinder and the other hand on the allthread.  He was using a saw motion to cut through the piece and the grinder jumped off the piece onto his hand causing a cut.

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