# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220141890012` · 07/05/2014 · Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** DRUM,PULY,SHEAVE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 69
- **Mine experience:** 8.9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Mettiki Coal WV, LLC 
- **Mine:** [4609028](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4609028)
## Narrative

Employee was using a wire rope and sheave block assembly to pull a piece of belt structure into an elevated installation position, when he got his hand caught in the moving cable and sheave block wheel, causing injury to his fingers.

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