# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220180880027` · 03/22/2018 · Carlota Copper Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Conveyor belt
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 10
- **Mine experience:** 9.13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** KGHM Polska Miedz S A
- **Operator:** Carlota Copper Company
- **Mine:** [0202653](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0202653)
## Narrative

Employee was moving stacked cathodes on a chain conveyor, using a vertical bar braced by the conveyor frame as a stop and using the conveyor in reverse to attempt to re align a skewed stack of cathodes - the top of the middle finger on left hand was caught between the bar and the stack of cathodes. The top of the finger was de-gloved, the tip of the finger was amputated.

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