# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220120740022` · 03/07/2012 · Kyanite Mining Corp
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects
- **Occupation:** Assayer, Geologist, Metallurgist, Engineer, Engineer management
- **Activity:** Office and lab work, Clerical
- **Injury source:** MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 14 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** The Disthene Group Inc
- **Operator:** Kyanite Mining Corp
- **Mine:** [4403743](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4403743)
## Narrative

IW is contracted by KMC as a Mining Engineering Consultant. As he was catching a sample from the bottom of the ball mill discharge, the sample container collided with the discharge screen, the sample cup was pulled into the rotating screen causing injury to his left hand: laceration to pinky requiring 12 stitches; fracture to middle finger, requiring splint.

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