# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220161180043` · 04/25/2016 · Buckingham Slate Company LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 26
- **Mine experience:** 1 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 lifting up a piece of slate with a chisel to put a shim under it.  Employee was holding the shim incorrectly with EE's thumb on top, and EE's other fingers on the bottom.  The rock slipped out from the chisel and it fell on top of the block which then cut off part of the thumb and cut EE's middle finger.

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