# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220162980023` · 10/20/2016 · Essroc Cement Corp.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Maintenance man, Mechanic,  Repair/Serviceman, Boilermaker, Fueler, Tire tech, Field service tech
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** CROWBAR,PRY BAR
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 13.06 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Heidelberg Materials AG
- **Operator:** Essroc Cement Corp.
- **Mine:** [4600007](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4600007)
## Narrative

Employee was inspecting conveyors belts, found a froze idler, found a bar and tapped the frame of the idler several times and the bar slipped after several attempt, catching the tip of the bar on the next roller downstream, approx. 18"" away, started to pull the bar in and the bar was forced upward into the frame which smashed the employees thumb between the bar and the frame.

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