# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220151320017` · 05/12/2015 · Oldcastle Lawn & Garden 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:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** PALLETS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 30 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Oldcastle Lawn & Garden Inc
- **Mine:** [1900018](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1900018)
## Narrative

Employee was loading a pallet into the Bemis palletizer when he dropped the pallet and pinched his finger against a metal strip causing a laceration to the 5th finger on his left hand. EE received 7 stitches and returned to work with no restrictions.

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