# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220143160037` · 11/03/2014 · Ash Grove Cement Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Surface equipment, NEC
- **Injury source:** MACHINE,NEC-WELDR,OFC MAC
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Operator:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Mine:** [0300256](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0300256)
## Narrative

Employee guiding mixer unit slips down into tankers & agitates the load enabling pump out. Injury to right index, middle, ring & pointer finger. Smash with no broken bones. Faulty equipment design w/ no identified hand placement area & a floating cap on mixer is guided by 3 flat pieces of metal. Cap side loaded & entered into the tanker it jarred falling on employee's rt hand.

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