# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220150580005` · 02/17/2015 · Mach Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Longwall operator, Chock operator, Shear operator, Plow operator
- **Activity:** Longwall, Shear, Plow
- **Injury source:** LONGWALL SUPT,JKS & CHOCK
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 133
- **Mine experience:** 9 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Coalfield Transport Inc; Foresight Energy/ Murray Energy
- **Operator:** Mach Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [1103141](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1103141)
## Narrative

Employee was hanging mesh near the tip of a longwall shield during the preparation of finishing up a panel. Employee hung a piece of mesh on a hook told another employee to set the shield tight. He then stepped back a few steps and laid his hand on the side of the adjacent shield. As the first shield set three fingers on his right hand were caught between the two shields.

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