# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220162160035` · 07/14/2016 · Banner Blue Coal Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Shuttle car operator, Mantrip operator, Ramcar operator, Rail runner, Buggy operator
- **Activity:** Move power cable
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.5 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company
- **Mine:** [4407318](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4407318)
## Narrative

Employee was hanging miner cable and water line using a pogo stick and rope cable hanger.  As employee placed the hanger on the pogo stick, the cable slipped and dropped down and the metal hook of the rope hanger caught employee's hand between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, resulting in a cut that required stitches to close.

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