# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220172070024` · 07/24/2017 · Douds Stone LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Drill operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** DRILL STEEL (ALL SIZES)
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** HAND (NOT WRIST OR FINGERS)
- **Days lost:** 19
- **Mine experience:** 2.1 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Brady D  Meldrem
- **Operator:** Douds Stone LLC
- **Mine:** [1302158](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1302158)
## Narrative

Employee was in the process of placing a drill steel in the drill mast. EE had one end on the pick-up tail gate and the other end on top of a berm. When employee pulled the steel onto the mast the back end of the steel fell off the tail gate pinching the employee's left hand between the steel and a large rock laying on the the berm.

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