# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220130360019` · 02/01/2013 · NYCO Minerals, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 42 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** S & B Industrial Minerals S A
- **Operator:** NYCO Minerals, Inc.
- **Mine:** [3000644](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3000644)
## Narrative

Employee was working on classifier 230B trying to move a bound up part when his hand slipped off and collided with the classifier housing in an area that was worn to a sharp edge.  Employees right hand grazed the sharp edge causing a laceration at the base of his right thumb that required sutures.

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