# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220123480020` · 12/12/2012 · Kingston Mining, Inc.
## 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:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Electrical maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 50
- **Mine experience:** 8 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Kingston Mining, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4608625](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608625)
## Narrative

the injured was raising the promixity box on the side of the miner to check the panel, the box slipped from his hand and mashed the end of his thumb off.

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