# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220170240002` · 01/17/2017 · Payne & Dolan, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Over-exertion NEC
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** SPRAIN,STRAIN RUPT DISC
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.58 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kurt  Bechthold
- **Operator:** Payne & Dolan, Inc.
- **Mine:** [4701140](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4701140)
## Narrative

EE was installing a new material deflector plate onto a chute. The chute had been removed from the cone crusher & was in the shop. As EE was putting the strip of metal into place so that it could be welded, the strip rotated in such a way that the EE's thumb was bent awkwardly. As a result, one of the tendons in EE's hand ruptured.

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