# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220120170050` · 01/08/2012 · Barrick Turquoise Ridge, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Drill helper
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** HAND TOOLS,NONPOWERED,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Barrick Gold Corp
- **Operator:** Barrick Turquoise Ridge, Inc.
- **Mine:** [2602286](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2602286)
## Narrative

Crew was using SDX 200 tongs to break drill string apart, tongs bound up, helper put hand on the back of tongs to pull to help unbind, tongs came unbound right middle fingertip got pinched between tongs and rotation barrier bushing.

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