# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220120650051` · 02/27/2012 · American Materials 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:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **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:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.77 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Gary (Tim)  Bizzell
- **Operator:** American Materials Company LLC
- **Mine:** [3102105](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3102105)
## Narrative

Employee was using a wooden block to adjust a discharge pipe underneath a screen deck.  Pipe came apart and employee's finger was wedged between the pipe and wooden block causing a laceration that required 8 stitches.

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