# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220120170066` · 01/03/2012 · Sidney Coal 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 NEC
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Bull gang,  Parts runner, Roustabout, Roof trimmer/scaler
- **Activity:** Handling timber
- **Injury source:** BLOCKING
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Sidney Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [1519097](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519097)
## Narrative

Employee was moving cribs block through a man door as another employee was tossing crib blocks towards the man door. As the injured employee was getting a crib block his middle finger of his right hand was smashed between two of the crib blocks resulting in a fracture to his finger.

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