# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220142300015` · 08/14/2014 · Beaver Gravel Corporation
## 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:** Welder (non-shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 20 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Allyn  Beaver
- **Operator:** Beaver Gravel Corporation
- **Mine:** [1202393](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1202393)
## Narrative

Employee's were engaged in installing a pin in an excavator arm. They inserted the pin partially in the hole but it wouldn't go in all the way. The pin popped out and the excavator arm fell on one of the employee's hand pinching it between the two sticks. Employee's thumb tip to the nail, the index and middle finger were severed.

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