# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220132110011` · 07/21/2013 · Mineral Ridge Gold, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 1
- **Mine experience:** 3 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Pete  Hawley; Chris  Zerga
- **Operator:** Mineral Ridge Gold, LLC
- **Mine:** [2602302](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2602302)
## Narrative

Employee was removing a digging bar from the travel way to secure a safe work platform when the bar slipped from his hands through the grating. When the employee reached for the bar to stop it from falling his right ring finger got caught between the railing and bar causing a laceration and requiring one stitch.

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