# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220100840010` · 03/15/2010 · Dominion Coal Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Beltman, Conveyor man,  Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FOREARM/ULNAR/RADIUS
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 7.69 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Sunoco, Inc.
- **Operator:** Dominion Coal Corporation
- **Mine:** [4406759](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406759)
## Narrative

After replacing belt in a belt line, the ee was using a chain hoist to pull the belt together to splice. The crew had loosened a top roller and the ee placed his arm at that roller while operating the chain hoist handle. The chain caught the roller and raised it up. The forearm of the ee was caught between the rigid belt structure & the roller.

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