# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220190300098` · 01/15/2019 · CalMat Co
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **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:** 7.44 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Vulcan Materials Company
- **Operator:** CalMat Co
- **Mine:** [0401734](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0401734)
## Narrative

On 1/15/19 employee was taken to the company clinic and received stitches for a bursting laceration. Employee's left hand, while performing clean-up duties, was caught between a metal spray bar and the side wear plate of the loader bucket, resulting in a bursting laceration to the left middle finger.

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