# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220152540017` · 09/01/2015 · Ash Grove Cement Company
## 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:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** MACHINE-MILL,CLEANING PLT
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2.21 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Operator:** Ash Grove Cement Company
- **Mine:** [4100026](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4100026)
## Narrative

EE was working on an auto sampler.  Air was turned off and the electrical equipment was turned off.  Residual air pressure in the lines allowed the unit to cycle when the EE freed the blockage with his finger. The EE lost about 1/4 inch of his left index finger including some bone. Stitches to close the wound

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