# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220201560016` · 06/01/2020 · The Sabine Mining Company
## 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:** Crane operator, Mobile equipment operator (MEO), Dragline operator, Dropball operator, Rigger
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** DRUM,PULY,SHEAVE-NT CONVY
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 49
- **Mine experience:** 18.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** NACCO Industries Inc
- **Operator:** The Sabine Mining Company
- **Mine:** [4103101](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4103101)
## Narrative

While finishing drag rope change out on a 1570 dragline. The winch line dropped out of the horizontal fairlead sheave, employee was guiding the cable back into the sheave. During this process employee's left thumb was pinched between the outer and inner horizontal sheaves fracturing the thumb. The employee was wearing leather gloves at the time of the incident. 

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