# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220132660041` · 09/17/2013 · Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, 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:** Laborer, Bull gang,  Parts runner, Roustabout, Roof trimmer/scaler
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 60
- **Mine experience:** 11 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [4406444](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4406444)
## Narrative

Employee and 3 others were loading 4"" plastic water line on flat car. Water line was raised over the standards on the flat car and slipped out of the hands of one of the other men. When the end of the water line hit the bottom it mashed his finger between the water line and the standard on the flat car causing a laceration and fracture to the end of his finger on his right hand.

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