# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220150300044` · 01/21/2015 · ROCK-IT NATURAL STONE, INC.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 6
- **Mine experience:** 1.58 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Billy D  Baldwin
- **Operator:** ROCK-IT NATURAL STONE, INC.
- **Mine:** [0302016](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0302016)
## Narrative

Worker was picking up a chopped rock with a sharp edge to put on a pallet. It slipped out of his hand and landed on the end of his ring finger on the left hand severing the tip of finger off.

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