# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220171560017` · 06/01/2017 · Twin Pines Minerals
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Plumber, Pipefitter, Millwright
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 21
- **Mine experience:** 1.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Raymond  Bean; Steve  Ingle
- **Operator:** Twin Pines Minerals
- **Mine:** [0801413](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0801413)
## Narrative

Employee was installing a 7-8 foot long water pipe and was trying to start threads into a 90 degree elbow. The opposite end was resting on a metal box. As ee turned the pipe trying to start the threads, the pipe rolled off the top of the box causing the pipe to shift and mash the employee's finger between the pipe and corner of the equipment. 

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