# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220101720015` · 06/16/2010 · Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 8 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Heidelberg Materials AG
- **Operator:** Lehigh Northeast Cement Company
- **Mine:** [3000585](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3000585)
## Narrative

The employee was sorting balls, moved the portable magnet 3'x 6"" W x 2.5"" thick, grasped the edge of the magnet with his right thumb being on the bottom of the magnet.  Employee rotated the magnet toward himself and the magnetic force pulled it down on its bottom edge pinching employee's thumb between the magnet and the frame of the ball sorter.

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