# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220170180014` · 01/13/2017 · Echo Bay Minerals Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BRICK,CERAMIC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kinross Gold Corp
- **Operator:** Echo Bay Minerals Company
- **Mine:** [4503283](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4503283)
## Narrative

Employee was using a guide rod to align the bolt hole on a liner prior to final placement. Employee had placed their right hand on the liner to assist with guiding the liner.  When the liner was going into place between the other liner, the employee hand remained on the liner and was caught between two liners causing the right proximal phalange to break near the upper knuckle.

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