# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220153170014` · 11/12/2015 · Buckingham Slate Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
- **Occupation:** Stone finishing and sizing personnel, Stone/Rock cut/Polish/Saw operator, Splitter, Cutter, Trimmer
- **Activity:** Hand tools (powered)
- **Injury source:** MACHINE,NEC-WELDR,OFC MAC
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Wallace Brad  Jones; Mark W  Claud
- **Operator:** Buckingham Slate Company LLC
- **Mine:** [4400061](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4400061)
## Narrative

Employee was trimming slate chips using Trimmer #1.  She had a chip in the trimmer when the blade got stuck on the left side of the machine in the rock.  She tried pushing the rock in, and the blade let loose and cut her finger.  She had her fingers on top of the slate which is an unsafe act.  Finger are always to be underneath the slate chip.

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