# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220111440023` · 05/11/2011 · Highland Mining 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:** Beltman, Conveyor man,  Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.46 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Operator:** Highland Mining Company LLC
- **Mine:** [1502709](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1502709)
## Narrative

Stated:  Employee was helping take down the rod used to hang a roll of belt for a belt extension.  As another employee took the nut off the end of the rod to remove the collar used to hang the bar, EE had his hand on the belt core.  When the end of the rod fell, his finger was mashed between the belt core and the collar on the other end of the rod.

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