# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220123140022` · 11/08/2012 · CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Quality control technician, Laboratory technician, Laboratory assistant
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CONVEYORS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 10.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cemex S A
- **Operator:** CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC
- **Mine:** [3503508](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3503508)
## Narrative

Employee was replacing a return roller with another employee. The injured employee placed his end of the return roller in the bracket the other employee did also but his end did not fall into place instead the return roller fell to the ground pinching the injured employees finger in between the return roller bracket and the return roller. The tip of the finger was amputated.

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