# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220151630017` · 05/28/2015 · Essroc Cement Corporation
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck against stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.71 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Italcementi Spa
- **Operator:** Essroc Cement Corporation
- **Mine:** [3600216](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3600216)
## Narrative

Employee was removing a fitting from the vacuum truck hose. The fitting was stuck and as the employee tried to spin it to free it up his thumb slid across a lip inside the fitting, cutting through his glove into his thumb. The employee was taken to urgent care for medical evaluation and received 5 stitches

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