# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220193110002` · 10/31/2019 · Cargill Salt 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Electrician, Lineman
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** HAND TOOLS,NONPOWERED,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.27 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cargill Inc
- **Operator:** Cargill Salt 
- **Mine:** [3000663](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3000663)
## Narrative

An Matco Electric contractor was using a post pounder to drive rebar into the ground at the #4 shaft location. Upon lifting the post pounder up, the EE lifted to high causing the rebar to come outside the pounder. When the contractor came down with the pounder the rebar pinched their left thumb between the handle and the top of the rebar. Broken bone/stitches to thumb.    

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