# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220171100016` · 04/11/2017 · Pine Branch Mining LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Welder (shop)
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Blackhawk Mining LLC
- **Operator:** Pine Branch Mining LLC
- **Mine:** [1519656](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1519656)
## Narrative

Employee was inserting an auger into the box of a highwall beam and got left index finger caught between the auger and box.

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