# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220161530021` · 05/25/2016 · Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CONVEYORS,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** WRIST
- **Days lost:** 16
- **Mine experience:** 4.42 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
- **Mine:** [4407223](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407223)
## Narrative

Employee was helping pull the head shaft out of the feeder. The right side slid and came out sooner than the left side causing the right side to drop suddenly and the left side to rise up. The event pinched EE's wrist between the head shaft and the frame of the feeder resulting in a fracture to right wrist.

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