# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220151200006` · 04/20/2015 · Liberty Materials, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Mine manager, Mine foreman, Mine owner
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** James E  Welch; Evelyn  Welch
- **Operator:** Liberty Materials, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4104196](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4104196)
## Narrative

EE was conducting maintenance on the truck scale. A trucker drove onto the scale despite EE telling the trucker to stop and wait for him to finish. The scale shifted slightly and smashed EE's finger, causing the right ring finger to break.

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