# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220180300006` · 01/16/2018 · Specialty Minerals Inc
## 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:** Utility man, Shift tech, Service/Dump truck operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** CHAIN,ROPE,CABLE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 24.75 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Minerals Technologies Inc
- **Operator:** Specialty Minerals Inc
- **Mine:** [0400219](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0400219)
## Narrative

Employee was using a forklift and noticed that there was slack in one of the chains which raise and lower the forks and decided to adjust the chains. The Operator tried to realign the chain onto the pulley, when the chain moved and caught the right hand between the chain and the pulley. This resulted in avulsion to the right index finger

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