# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220102980021` · 10/12/2010 · Hinkle Contracting Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Summit Materials LLC
- **Operator:** Hinkle Contracting Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1500075](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1500075)
## Narrative

EE was releasing come-a-long from a conveyor that he had tied off while making repairs to the belting. Upon releasing the latch the cable hung, ee jerked the come-a-long with his right hand. The latch released pinching his right thumb. He went to the urgent treatment clinic and they gave him a tetanus shot and placed 2 stitches in the side of his thumb.

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