# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220170890006` · 03/17/2017 · Michigan Materials and Aggregates 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:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** NONPOWRD VECH-DOLI,WHLBRW
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Operator:** Michigan Materials and Aggregates Company
- **Mine:** [2002595](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2002595)
## Narrative

Two employees were hooking up to a portable hydraulic trailer. They found it to be about an inch short of sitting down in the hitch for a secure hookup. IE and the other employee decided to push it forward to finalize the hookup. It slid off the side and back on the block. The thumb was pinched between the tongue and the block. Employee had laceration and broken tip of thumb. 

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