# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220120520051` · 02/16/2012 · Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Errand boy, Service truck operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 62
- **Mine experience:** 0.37 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
- **Mine:** [4609028](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609028)
## Narrative

Employee was in the process of reinstalling the relay bar retaining pin that had worked loose on shield #121.  The pin became wedged and as it was being worked back and forth to free up the employees left thumb was pinched between the pin and the relay bar avulsing the tip of the thumb.

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