# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220140630085` · 02/27/2014 · Freeport-McMoRan Morenci 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:** Steel worker, Iron metal worker, Iron worker
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** STEEL RAIL (ALL KINDS)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 14
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Freeport-McMoRan Inc
- **Operator:** Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc.
- **Mine:** [0200024](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0200024)
## Narrative

Employees were attempting to install a 8""X8""X1"" steel diagonal brace. The upper end of the brace slipped off the connection clip on the support column and struck the right hand of Employee #1 pinching it between the diagonal brace and the inside of the support column. Physicians at UMC-Tucson made the decision to amputate the right pinky finger.

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