# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220102910079` · 10/07/2010 · Ronald Sand & Gravel
## 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:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Move non-self-propelled equip
- **Injury source:** NONPOWRD VECH-DOLI,WHLBRW
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 181
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Louie H.  Gibson
- **Operator:** Ronald Sand & Gravel
- **Mine:** [4503628](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4503628)
## Narrative

One end of a chain was hooked to a 160 excavator and the miner hooked the other end to a hitch to move dolly out from under portable crusher. The chain came undone and the miner grabbed at the chain before it had quit moving. The chain pulled his right thumb through the eye of the dolly. The miner pulled his thumb out of the eye.

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