# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220112900042` · 10/13/2011 · Decker's Creek Limestone Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** PUMPS,FANS,COMP,ENG,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 4
- **Mine experience:** 26 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Greer Industries Inc
- **Operator:** Decker's Creek Limestone Company
- **Mine:** [4600029](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4600029)
## Narrative

While setting an engine back into the scaling truck the engine shifted and caught the mechanic's left index finger resulting in an amputation right at the base of the finger nail.

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